NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal - Brandon Marshall trade reaction, 'Go Get My Lunch'

Episode Date: March 6, 2015

A room filled with heroes -- Dan Hanzus, Gregg Rosenthal, Chris Wesseling and Marc Sessler  -- discusses the latest news ahead of free agency, welcomes cornerback Brandon Flowers into the studio, and plays another rousing game of "Go Get My Lunch." Plus, the ATN crew details the implications of a Brandon Marshall trade to the New York Jets and picks apart Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning's new deal.Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comNFL Daily YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/nflpodcastsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an I-Heart podcast. The Around the NFL podcast. Like this kind of party. Welcome back to another edition of the Around the NFL podcast. My name is Dan Hansis, and I am joined by a room filled with some heroes. Mark Sessler, Chris Wessling, and Greg Rosenthal. What's up, boys?

Hey, Dan. Ow! Right back in here again. I feel like we were just sitting here. Energy. Minutes ago. I can feel that there's a lot of pot. I like that kind of party.

Absolutely. And I'll tell you what. One thing I want to tell you, I'm excited about TD does a great job for us behind the glass, but it's always good to have an old friend stop by working behind the glass today. The Gold Standard. Oh, yeah. What's up? Hey, buddy.

How we doing? You forgot to play your entrance music. Do you have entrance music? I don't think so. I don't think so. You should get some. Yeah, I'll work on that. Yeah.

It's spring training right now. I would say play some daft punk, but Wes would not be on board with that. It couldn't be any. Oh, come on. It's just noise. Takes it back to Lansdowne Street in Boston. The old clubs. Yeah, how you doing, Goldstander?

What are you been up to? Pretty good, not too much. Working on some projects around the office. Watching a lot of football. What kind of football? No, this football. By the only football. Congratulations in the major league soccer.

Thank you so much. the work stoppage, hubba, hubba. Yeah, it was getting real sweaty there for a minute. So it's great to have Gold Center here, and apparently, TD walks out the door. He was observing the first couple of seconds. Gold Center is going to be in here once a week probably going forward.

I think you'll be our Friday guy. Yeah, Gold Standard Fridays. So that's fun. Gold Standard Fridays. We had Seduction Sundays. Then at Gold Standard Fridays. All right, so big show. I'm excited about today.

Big, huge show today. I'm not typically I'm not excited about the show at all I dread it I'm looking forward for it to be over that's not true I love this but this show specifically because we're bringing it back by popular demand by popular demand we're bringing back go get my lunch jerk

I used to drop a B word there but that's a little disrespectful that's a family show shift it to jerk going forward Greg your thoughts as a management figure I like it I wonder if we can come come up with another word other than jerk but i like the change i think it's been enough it's an upgrade go about go get my lunch what about what about go get my lunch please go get my lunch please how about go get my lunch guy i don't these are getting incrementally worse not really what i

none of these names is as good as the original well it's true well we'll work on this i like that you're giving gold standard extra beeping work they're right off the back well you know i know he's capable. So we're going to play that. And for those that aren't aware, what go get my lunch blank is. It's a proposition game where we lay out predictions and then, you know, you challenge the rest of the group. And if you get it right, they owe you sandwiches, high octane sandwiches, that is. Contraptions. Contraptions. And if not, it goes the other way. And this is Mark's least favorite game, which we'll get into a little later why you don't like it, Mark. But it's an interesting take from The Sizzler. Why, I'm just being real. It's like

Well, we'll get into it, but multiple reasons why I find it, you know, less joyful than the three of you. That said, you are cackling with enthusiasm this morning as you were drawing up your propositions. You have a few high-octane... He was giggling to himself, like a schoolboy. I was like, wow, assessor. By the way, I'd like to think that I can improve my performance. Part of the reason I don't like the game is I had. Fair enough.

Although we came out even. We came out even. Yeah. Well, you were down a few, but you had already made up. Yeah, in the end, it's funny how it worked out. We're all square here, and yet TD owes three to the group. We haven't received that. One reason he's gotten the heck out of here.

It's beyond a mid-level commitment. All right. So we'll close the show by talking some sandwiches, making some propositions about free agency. That will be the focus of the propositions. We'll also have a guest in the studio, which we don't usually have guests, But when the talent bookers at NFL media come with someone that intrigues us, we say, bring him on in. Brandon, Flores.

You want to make flowers today? Going to be in the studio. So we're going to sit and talk with him. He's going to be a free agent on Tuesday. We'll see if he ends up back with the Chargers or if he's going to be somewhere else in a not a great cornerback market. So you'd think Mr. Flowers is going to make some money. We might even have to ask him about that drop.

I hope he doesn't know the origin of that. Yeah. I don't even know how we'd react to it if people are aware of what it is. So we're going to talk to Brendan Flowers. But before any of that, we are going to swing it back to the gold standard because it's time to do some news. Can we, fella? Let's do it.

Dan, I know you've got some big news here, but I'm going to jump in for some legitimate breaking news that happened one minute ago. Maurice Jones Drew has announced his retirement. Whoa. That's big news. It is big. I know you got some other high acting news. No, I mean, I think this was the rushing champion, what, 2012?

Three or four years ago. Yeah. 2011. And under his current coach. Messes up his foot. Dreaded Liz Frank. Liz Frank. What a harlot she is.

He ends up with the Raiders, and it seemed like he had nothing left in the tank. It was clear he wasn't coming back there. So he ends his career, and I don't think he was probably about 31 years old. not a surprise though right wes not a surprise at all because of what you said that he it was clear that he was at the end of the road last year but got off to a hall of fame start early in his career and was one of my favorite players in the NFL for a good three or four years was to me the best fourth down advantage in the NFL early in his career jack del Rio not who you would consider an aggressive coach started going for fourth downs at a higher rate than any coach in the league

because maurice jones drew could not be tackled in short-yarded situation we asked del Rio at the Combine, are you going to bring this guy back? Because it was a nice story, potentially. And he said, well, he said he sat down with MJD and said, are you still explosive? Are you the guy we've had last year or not? They must have come to the conclusion that they were not going to bring it back. He was expensive, too. 2.2 yards per carry last year.

He's only 29 years old. He was in the league at 21. But I do remember those early years where it was him and Fred Taylor together. He was so dynamic. That was a fun tandem to watch because Fred Taylor, was sneaky, one of the most fun running backs in the league to watch. And Jones Drew was always that guy you always wanted to see, well, what could he do

if he was the man? Because he was getting 7, 8, 900 yards, and then catching the ball for 500 yards, bouncing off tackles. And then once he did get the chance, he ends up getting a couple 1,000 yards season, then lead the league one year. A reminder now that get-on athletes, especially

football players that hold out and want more money. He held out, after his rushing title season, he held out for a long time trying to get a new deal, it didn't happen, and then what happens? Part of the reason he didn't get is because he was approaching like age 28 or whatever at the point. He hurts his foot. He gets cut. He signs a deal with the Raiders. He's going to get cut again. Now retires. Never got his money. Now it makes sense. He was trying to use the leverage he had. It still didn't work, but I get it.

He did get the good running back money on his second deal while it was still around in the NFL. So, you know, he's always been big into fantasy football, big into broadcasting. I have a feeling he'll be probably on our network. I would assume he'll be in the fantasy football business. Also one of the great nicknames of his era, Pocket Hercules. Mark, dismissive, the nickname. I'm fine with it. All right.

So goodbye, MJD. It was a nice show. All right, next up, let's pull back the curtain a little bit. We originally had a nice discussion between the four of us about Brandon Marshall being shot by the Chicago Bears. But before we posted the podcast today, Friday, it turned out that Brandon Marshall

got traded to the Jets. Deals in place. So Greg's not with us right now. So the three of us are going to talk about it. And I can tell you that when I got this news, a text from a friend of mine in New York while I was at the DMV,

which was pleasant. Wow. What a way to past the time, the hour and 20 minutes, I was stuck in that infernal hellhole, getting to tweet with Jet fans that are excited, getting obviously nervous tweets from Greg Rosenthal. Mark, you seem to be thinking it was a really good trade for the Jets. We're hearing, what, a fifth round pick? Fifth rounder, according to Albert Breeder.

For Brandon Marshall, who, yes, 31 years old, yes, a little banged up. But to me, huge, still a big-time playmaker. put him next to Eric Decker, to me, the best one-two combination since Kishon and Krabet for the Jets. And, you know, Percy Harvin, that to me, the writing's on the wall, I don't know if that's definitely going to happen, that he's going to be let go. Now they'll cut him, and they get to keep their fourth-round pick and they're paying less money. They trade one head case for another, but this one's better. I'm happy.

The thing that we said yesterday in the segment that got wiped off the board, you know, with our update here, is that why not take a chance? we knew at the time it would be a mid-round pick. Bad teams, if they want to stop being bad teams, start swinging for the fences, add talent. The Jets got the better side of this trade, in my opinion, no doubt. It puts Decker number one. I never like Decker as a number one option.

It puts him better into a place where he fits in that offense as a number two complimentary receiver. I think he'll be better. It goes against the number two cornerback on different teams now. Absolutely. I mean, you've got an exciting. If they ever kept Harvin, because Chan Gale is one of the few guys I think

that could do something special with Harvin, that is an interesting offense for the first time, and how long? A long time. I just wrote a post minutes ago. Rapsheet has a report that the trade does not directly affect Percy Harvin because he's such a unique player, sort of a running back wide receiver hybrid. It's not like he's similar in talent to Brandon Marshall or Eric Decker, but it's going to come down to money, and the Jets have already asked him to take a pay cut.

He's not going to do it. and you've already paid Jeremy Curley last October. I can't imagine them paying all four. So Harvin's going to be gone. I think even if Harvin's gone, this is a very interesting offense to me. Now, the quarterback position is still a huge concern, obviously, and I'm all for them going for it, getting Marcus Marietta and seeing where we can go with this,

have Gino Smith there as his backup slash guy that keeps the seat warm. But I think if you have the Decker, you now have. Jason Marrow, now if they go get C.J. Spiller, and he pair him with Chris Ivory. I think this is pretty good with Brandon Marshall in the mix. This is the first time in West. We were talking about this earlier in the week with Chan Galee running the offense. This is the first time in years, potentially since maybe Chad Pennington's one big time year or before Brett Bar have heard his bicep, that the Jets might have an exciting offense.

I'm not even know. I don't know how to deal with it. I'm getting dizzy right now. Part of our discussion on Thursday that got wiped out, I said of all the wide receivers available, Brandon Marshall is the one with the best chance of going 1,500 yards, 12 TDs in 2015. I don't feel that way with the Jets just because they have a question mark at quarterback. But their surrounding talent looks like, I mean, if you've got Marshall, Decker, that's a great one-two. Curly's a good slot.

If you bring in Spiller and pair him with ivory, that's a dynamic one-two. you got Jay Samara, who is a promising young tight end. All you need is a quarterback, and that's a big hurdle to find. That is, but I mean, you have to give, if you're the Jets fan base that's gone through at this point a lot of boring offense for years at this, you know, good defense and a stagnant, hard-to-watch attack. I like the new front office because they said they were- Big Mac. They said they'd be aggressive at the combine, but what does that mean?

You have to do that with action, and they were right here. You know, as a Browns fan, for instance, I wanted them to go make a move like that. this it's the Jets that did and I think when you're bold like this it pays off if this is if they keep some of this talent and add a guy like spiller one of the most interesting skill position groups in the afc east can't believe we're even having that conversation let's look at the other side of it the bears now they now are they still have alshan geoffrey there west you left at me earlier in the week about randall now this wasn't my prediction that brandon marshall would be out of the picture but now they seem to have probably a need at wide receiver so where do the bears

go from here and getting a fifth round pick, if you're a Bears fan, you've got to be pretty disappointed considering who Marshall is. Well, I think they need to pour their resources into defense. That's been the Bears' problem for a couple of years now. They've hit historically inept run defenses, so I wouldn't put wide receiver really high on the list. They probably need to extend Jeffrey is what they need to do. It is a good draft for wide receivers, a deep one. Not like last years, but they don't have to reach for that up top. But it's funny because even a couple weeks ago, we were talking about them as a fantasy football type offense. And bottom line, you remove Marshall, it's not the same.

They've got a huge decision coming on Jay Cutler Tuesday. 10 million of his $16 million for 2016 is due on that day. It becomes guaranteed. So essentially, if they pick up that $10 million, they're committing two years to a quarterback who was benched for Jimmy Clausen by the previous regime. I don't think that's a rubber stamp. I think they could decide to cut him. I want to see if later in the show,

someone might lose some sandwiches on that name correct. Good call, Mark. A little spoiler alert. Before, when you guys get to the portion of the program listeners, when we make our sandwich propositions, Wes might have been in on a Brendan Marshall scenario that may or may not have worked out, so stay tuned for that.

That's it. We're going to now head back, bring Greg back into the mix. I will leave now. I came in Friday specifically to talk about this. And, Wes, can you get your cornhole boards out of my trunk? Can we take care of that now? We're going to need those for Philadelphia's daily-a-graw on Friday night. I like the Dan's commitment to this podcast is that at the moment while he's been up here,

his car is illegally parked downstairs and is being swarmed by security. Oh, my God, anything could be happening. Homeland Security is probably surrounding my car right now. Good job by you. All right. The Patriots will not be picking up Vince Wilfork's option for 2015, and he will be released. Wilfirk took to, I guess it was his Twitter page and posted along, essentially a love note to the Patriots family and the New England fan base

explaining that it was a great run and he loved it there. And listen, the big man, Greg, you know, on your throne of ease, it's hard. Sometimes as a Jets fan, there are a lot of things about the Patriots I don't like, always love Big Vince as a player and his personality. You have to say goodbye because time marches on, Greg, and that's a thing you've got to realize. Time keeps marching. Well, I'm glad I'm rooting for a team that recognizes that that doesn't hold on too hard to sentiment.

And I like that. I think this year was the sentiment year. If Vince Wolfirk had any other name, he wouldn't even been back on the team this year. And it seemed like Robert Kraft stepped into the mix, which you don't see too often. And then, you know what? He gets a second Super Bowl title out of it. It's kind of a happy ending. And who know, he might even return to the team by the sound of it for a lesson.

That is fair. No team in the league does a better job. of unemotional releasing of players that meant a lot at one point. We called it here on the podcast a month ago. You did, and I would, you know, I'd rather have that than a team that's chasing down stars from three years ago. He also noted in his little write-up, he's had one major injury, said he has lots of gas still left in the tank. He's 33. Wes, you watch a ton of tape.

That's how you got named the scientist. Did you see a lot of gas in that tank, or is Vince Wilford kind of near the end at this point? I have to confess, I did not watch Vince. I don't watch the Hawk Mollies as closely. This is awkward. But I think the consensus is he's not who he used to be, but he still played almost every down. He played more than any Patriots defensive lineman last year.

He's solid. He can still help a team. He can start in the NFL, and he could at least be a 600 snap run stiffer type. He was a solid. He just wasn't like a $9 million a year player, but he was solid for them. I identify with Vince Will Fork.

How's that? One of my favorite videos is that video of him Just about to bring that up Where he's bugging, he's got that bouncing of stuff While he's smoking ribs Go to Google Catches him like out there Unbeknown's to him

She's videotaping him And he just, he's bugging out there With his ribs, he's smoking Wilfurt and I am the anti-Ted Johnson Because I am a huge Vince Wilfirk And I think Bianca Wilfork fan They're the macho man and Miss Elizabeth The NFL as far as I'm concerned

Check out their Instagram feed If you type in Vince Wilfork and like dancing it will bring up the greatest video ever, Vince Wolford. I don't know if I'm big on her sending that out without letting him know. No, it makes him look, you know, carving Big Vince. It looks like a charming big man. All right, well, then I'm going to start to videotape the three of you from a corner and send it out for my account. She really is.

We've done that to you, actually, Mark, several times at their nights out. We have some video. I'm not pleased with it. None of it seen the light of day. I'll miss Bianca as a Patriots fan. I mean, what other NFL wife right now is as Fronten says? front and center and lovable and just kind of part of the next man eric decker's wife all right easy let's move that was awkward yeah uh you perfect advice doesn't she have our own show

or something i don't by the way that's not where you were coming the only you know great uh note that he sent out great can't get off the topic we got to stay everything's terrific you know throw it by an editor no apostrophies here that's not how he got you multiple super bowl random words are capitalized just hey Hey, buddy, take a look at this. I would love you to say that to Vince Wilfirk, by the way. Does he hate apostrophies? Like, I don't know.

There's no, like, it ends, it just ends with no punctuation. Exactly. I don't know. It seems fine to me. Moving on. Sorry for stepping on your bit, Dan. Oh, no, you didn't step on anything. The Vince Wolfork.

No, that was perfect because we're on the same page on that. This is really a kinder, gentler podcast after last show. I felt like we were all at each other's throat. Yeah, this isn't a lot better so far. It's been a really good show so far. Darnel. Darnell Docket. He is defecting to an NFC.

West rival, says the great Kevin Patcher in his write-up on around the NFL. His agent announced via Twitter that the former Cardinals' defensive lineman has joined the Niners. Rap sheet reports the deal is worth two years and seven and a half million with four million in year one and two million guaranteed. Docket, of course, coming off that ACL tear, knocked him out all of last season. He's 33. He thinks he's going to be the comeback player of the year. Will he be? I wouldn't bank on it.

He's going to be 34 next season. I wouldn't bank on somebody that age playing defensive line to be comeback player of the year. You've got to be a starter. And you would think he would be a starter, probably replacing Justin Smith if Justin Smith retires, but he's not a guy you would expect to be out there every down. I just think he went there. He heard the Jim Tom Sula free agency pitch,

and he could not tear himself away. Tom Sula's one for one. I like the NFC West, very incestrient. They'd sign all their own players. They go from one team to the next. It was just the Seahawks and the Niners doing that year to year, but the Cardinals are in the mix now. The Rams haven't figured out how to make that happen.

They're a little bit slow. But I wonder if someone like Michael Crabtree winds up with the Seahawks or something like that, that we might not be to see the end of this. I like that docket always talk trash about the other NFC West teams, especially the 49ers and the CX. And then he joins. It's a little, you always have the wrestling analogies. It's kind of like that.

It's like, okay, now I'm going to. to join the rival and get back at my team. I like that. Doc, it's like the honky tonk man with a Twitter account. I don't think he'd appreciate that. Who's the ultimate warrior in that case? Now we're going a little deep on the wrestling of the late 80s

and early 90s. Yeah, so that's going on with him. And finally, gentlemen, a little Peyton Manning talk, he passed that physical with the Broncos and with it, Mark, your great sandwich proposition. That goes down the tubes. He will be back

2015. Of course he took that pay cut and let's give the boss a little credit. Old Greg Rosenthal he had a suspicion that there would be incentives in the steel to get the loss $4 million back. However what I found interesting about the incentives, it has nothing to do with Peyton throwing

50 touchdowns or setting some type of league record. It's tied to the Super Bowl. They get to the Super Bowl. He gets $2 million. They win the Super Bowl. He gets the $4 million back in full. Greg, your thoughts. John Elway is nothing if not clear with his objectives.

It's like, John Fox, you don't win a Super Bowl, you're fired. Anyone that doesn't win a Super Bowl, you're fired. Like, we want you to take a pay cut, Peyton Manning. The only thing you can do win a Super Bowl, you get $4 million. It's almost like a sneaky dig. It's like, oh, you want all that money? Well, here, go get it for me. I think it is a little bit of a dig.

I still think this whole situation is strange that you had to make him take a pay cut. Something still feels weird to me. I realize I lost the sandwiches. I like that it came this far. It's March. and yesterday we still didn't know what was going to happen. Well, we did, though. But still, to your point, yes.

You know, everyone else was just laughing at the concept of this that, oh, by mid-January, he'll just be rolling into another year. Instead, it was a total debacle back then. And yeah, now it's fine because everything's fine in March. I like Mark's version of history. Yeah, I know. I agree with Damashek, they may not even make the playoffs next year. I just don't see this guarantee that they're going to roll in 13 and 3.

Oh, nobody thinks that. Carbon copy. I think they'll be good. Yeah, I don't think they're going to, I could see him potentially having a final Brett Favre type year. I could see him struggling. Well, then they will not make the playoffs. I think they're one of the favorites to win the Super Bowl again.

But I do like how you twist this history, because the history I remember is right after Peyton Manning went down in flames in the playoffs and then maybe the next show even after that. You were basically throwing a tip-girt tape parade for yourself that you got the prediction right. Listen, a little early. All right, no, I said, I always said I got it half right, but it is just the same. scoffing that went on when I made this pick in August. You know, the nose

up in the air from all three of you, the utter scoffing, and then it went to the brink. All right. That's a good way to look at it. That's like the Jets losing by a field goal to the Patriots twice. Still too lost. Yeah, it is what it is. All right. All right. So let's,

why do we, before we get to Brandon Flowers, this should be coming in any minute. I just wanted to run something by you. West. You did not like Daft Punk as a potential celebration song. Not my kind of. And I get that.

I like that song, but, you know, I feel like we should all be on the same page. One of our listeners and a follow on Twitter, Peter Squires, at Peter underscore Squires. He chimed in with an idea that I thought was great. So Gold Standard, let's pitch this one to the group as, and remember, first of all, let's play what we've been using, which is being retired. Okay. Cool the gang. All right. That got retired in 1987.

It's over for cool. Got to go. I've been retired for 35 years. Okay. So here is Peter Squires' idea, which I'm over the moon about. This is how we do it. The great Montel Jordan. This is how we do it.

That's top five. One of the great party jams of the mid-90s. Greg, you seem to be on the fan. Yeah, I know. I'm on board. I like it. I don't think we have to have just one. No, we don't have one.

Let's make the list. I'm good with that. A rotation. The dark seemed the only one unsure, maybe. I know. I feel like I went to 75 high school dances where that was like the thing, and I'm a little over it. But it works. We are missing one of the top 10 songs in the history of music.

What? Goldstander, can you find... That's not how it works back there. It took like 45 minutes for Dan to get this on the board, by the way. Can you find Rob Bass and DJ EZE? All right, well, that's a request for another show. Let's make a note of it. I'll have it for you next time, for sure.

Because that's... I mean, that might be the greatest music ever produced. I like seeing into Wes's mind to see how he thinks the show works. Like, you just pull it up and someone has it hooked into a mainframe. Don't you have YouTube back there? It's almost like that, yeah. But, yeah, let's put that in. We'll listen to it.

Yeah, we'll continue. Everyone comes up with the new one every show. A couple other ones I had, by the way. Tell me what you think about this one. It's very celebratory. That's more of a threat. No? All right, all right.

And then I had one more. This is obviously not celebration, but I thought we could use it a lot for Mark and I. I think you could use the previous song for Mark and you. Well, you know, if we have enough drink. That was inappropriate coming from you. For Mark and I for the Jets and Browns this season, I thought this might work.

Oh, somebody kill me please. Somebody kill me please. I'm on my knees Pretty, pretty, pretty, please. Yeah, that could work. I would think about, you know, around Halloween time. We've probably lost multiple thousands of listeners over the last 15 seconds.

Why? Just a little fast forward to get through that, you know, noise grading. All right. So, all right, thanks, Mark, for your input on the show. So, yeah, those are some options, and I'm happy that Montel Jordan is one of them. That's good. I like it.

Tid, excuse me, gold standard, behind the glass. Good work. I can see the resemblance. Yeah. By the way, Zach Dressler behind the glass, I went and got a drink with him in Damashek. Zach Dressler's last day, Zee Drizzles. This week, going to miss you, buddy.

Phenomenal guy. Phenomenal is a legend. Z-Drizzle, you're going to come back to the NFL media group? Yeah. I mean, if you guys greet me, either way, you just greet a Goldstein when you guys came with the studio. Did you just call Goldstein? You know, there's a lot of Jewish guys that work here.

Goldman, Goldstein. Are you allowed to say that? Yeah. Are you in the tribe? All right. Come on. You have to be in the tribe to be able to drop that kind of stuff. I'm like an original.

My dad's an OG of the tribe, born in Israel. Wow. That is a real deal. All right. So Z-Drizzle, we're all going to give you big, tidy man hugs after the show to see you off. All right. Enough of this, though. Let's get Brandon Flowers in here.

I see him coming in the door right now. The great cornerback for the Chargers heading toward free agency. Let's talk to him. All right. We have a very special guest in the studio. He is a Chargers cornerback. Maybe not for long. We'll find out in about a week or so.

He is the great Brandon Flowers. Welcome to the year on the NFL podcast, Brandon. What on on, fellas, thanks for having. It's been a long day for you already. We were talking before the show, 5 a.m. Wake up. You got in at 1.30 or something, but you just love talking with us so much. You had to get it.

I know, right. I had to call. I'm used to a kind of. I just had my first little girl, so she was going to sleep two hours out of the day anyway so I'm right with you I just had my second kid so it's been a rough couple months yeah so Brandon this is obviously a big time in your life I mean well you have a baby girl that's good yeah you're entering free agency where it's starting on Tuesday where's your mind at right now as you approach the start of free agency is there a lot of trepidation are you looking

forward to it where are you at I'm looking forward to it because in my mind I mean you only hit free agency once if you luck you twice And I'm in a good place because the team that I love in the San Diego Chargers, we're trying to negotiate a deal right now. So I would love to go back to San Diego. That would be my first choice, of course. But if it doesn't happen, it wouldn't be bad to go to the market and go to a team that also wants you to come in and help the team try to win and rain.

So it's a win-win for me right now, I feel. Do you kind of feel like with the deal you signed last year with them, you were almost betting on yourself and hoping to get back out into the free. agent market a year later and if you did like how do you think that worked out for you i think i think it worked out good you know it'd have been better if we had a playoff run and went flying the playoffs it'll work even better but putting myself in that position to go to san diego i knew what kind of team they had and i felt they're the best fit for me and my personality and everything like that and i loved it from the time i stepped foot in san diego until now like i love

every single moment of it so you can't have any regrets if you loved everything about it all right I, you know, I'm not somebody that likes to make things weird. That's not true. I do like to make things weird. And I just want to point out that NFL.com, we come up with a top 101 free agents list every year. And when I say we, I don't really mean we. I mean Greg Rosenthal on my right, Chris Wessling to my left. You're at number 21, which is a nice spot at a 101.

It's a good spot, but I do have to say. It's really out of like 400 free agents if you think about it. Okay, Greg, okay, all right. But I just want to say that it does not put. you as the number one cornerback in the market Byron Maxwell from Seattle was listed at number nine. Can you please tell these chumps

why they're wrong? Come on, fellas. You know, first off, let me say I like Byron. That's like my little brother. We train together every officer. So I never want to say anything bad by Byron. He's a great ranger corner that can go out and play ball. But myself, you know,

I've been playing in this league seven years now. And I had six great years and one good year. You know, So the film is there, I think it's on tape that I can play outside. I can play slot. Wherever you need me. I can go back to safety. Where you need me.

Back to safety. I can do it. I love time. I didn't know that's an option. Yeah, some deep-slipped-back coaches don't like the fact that I love the hit all the time because they tell me they don't want me to get too banged up. But I'm utility. Wherever you need me to play, I can play.

And I feel like I can play it at a high level. So I can do a lot of stuff and bring a lot to a defense. I think it was really Wesleying that. Oh, it was a game, though. I don't know about that. I had you at number one overall. I appreciate it. No one ever asks me this stuff.

You were actually on NFL AM when you were up, zombie style in the middle of the morning, early in the morning. You said that the cornerback is just as important as the quarterback. I like that. Hot take. Let's hear why you think that. Because if you don't have a cornerback in this league,

no matter how great your pass rush in, the ball getting out in three seconds, I don't care if you have Justin, Houston, and Tom Bali, Lee, Donald and Sue, whoever you have on a deal line, they can't get there. It's just impossible to get there that fast.

So you've got to have someone that'll hold up, you know, and they're just a valuable. You don't want to go into zones anymore because quarterbacks are so smart, and the officer coordinators are so smart and beating the zone. Every zone has a zone beater.

So the best way to beat these top teams just getting their face, mono, mono, match on man and man. So the more corners and the top corners you have at that position, that's going to win your ball games in this league now. Well, the last two Super Bowl champions had Dorel Revis and Richard Sherman.

And a lot of that bumping around. Do you think like quarterbacks are getting rid of the ball faster than when you came in the league, like that's been a trend going around? It's, uh, I want to say they're getting rid of it fast. I think it's... Because you play the guy who gets rid of it the fastest, Peyton Manning a couple times in your division. I mean, even his deep balls, like I was saying earlier, like two steps and it's

gone, you know, so if you get beat out the line, that's it. But it's just, it's strategic. You know, I think Aaron Rogers and guys, they like to hold on to the ball a little and let the route develop, and if it's not there, they can still fit in the tight windows or run. So I think it depends on what quarterback you're playing, how comfortable they feel in the pocket. Brandon, are you a television fan?

I am a television fan. Did you, by any chance, I had to ask you about this. Did you watch a true detective on HBO? I haven't. Okay, first of all, you should watch it. Binge watch that. You have some time after you make your multimillion-dollar signing and life is good with your baby girl and everything.

but just to let you in on a little inside running joke within the Around the NFL podcast every time and I mean every time your name comes up on the show which is you know every couple of weeks or every month or so the Chargers were the official team of the Around the NFL podcast they were so your name came up a lot this is what we play every time it comes up you want to make flowers today so now without any context you have no idea what that means I have no no but when you do watch two detective and you get to the season finale of that show and you find out what that drop is attached to? Just think of us.

Think of us. Call out. And be like, I cannot believe that you're associating you with that. I got to make sure I look that over it. I hope you're on Netflix. I can go straight to the finale. I don't even want to waste time. Wes has an HBO go password.

I'll flip it to you. There we go. All right. Before we let you go, if you don't go to the Chargers, do you have any feel of some teams that might be a little interested in you? No, March 10th, I guess.

That's when I start visiting teams, and we'll see where it goes from there. But yeah, just right now, I'm sad on going back to San Diego. I just love football. If it's not San Diego, like, wherever I go, of course I like to be conversated for what I do, but I love football. So it doesn't matter what team I go to. That sounds like somebody wants to stay with the charge. I know.

Sounds like that. It's going back to San Diego. And here's the other good news. After Brandon re-ups with the Chargers and after he catches up on Chew Detective, and after the Chargers moved to L.A. We'll all come here and we'll watch season two of True Detective together. They'll be glorious. All right, that's it.

Brandon Flowers, thank you very much for joining us. I know you're going to continue your way through the NFL Network Car Wash today on your way to our flagship program, Total Access. But thank you for stopping by the Around the NFL podcast. Thanks for having me. I'm definitely enjoying it. You want to make flowers today? And there goes Brandon Flowers.

Mark, you sat that out. You're on the other side of the glass. Your thoughts? Well, we have a studio here that's only set up with four mics, and so someone's got to take one for the team. I sitting out there, I thought, number one, a lot of good information generated by three hard-hitting jernos. I thought it sounds like, and we said it,

it sounds like he's coming back to the Chargers. He wants to. I mean, the Chargers should bring him back. He was really good for them last year. It was a good signing. It was great. Tons of Cap Room. Do it.

Get her done. All right, it's time. It's time to talk about. go get my lunch idiot another option go get my lunch clown yeah so we're going to free agency edition we haven't done this in a while

it wasn't the last time we did it was it before the playoffs I think it was before the season marches on and on nothing ever stops yeah but we did it last during free agency yeah it was before the season so we'll each take turns we'll make a prediction everyone including the great gold standard can jump in and take the sandwich proposition,

a high-octane sandwich. And Mark, just real quick, you wish it could be something other than sandwiches. You're not a big food fan. I don't sit around, you know, salivating over the idea of some sort of food item, and it's like the whole contest is centered around something I don't really care about. I can buy you a book for the same price as a sandwich. I like that.

Go get my book. What, like a choose-your-own-adventure paperback or something? Go get my Amazon. purchased book Clown. High-Octane hard-boiled detective story.

I've never met a person that has such a distaste for food as you. Greg has the it's not a perfect line.

It's a disinterest. He calls Mark a fooditarian. Oh yeah, you're a fooditarian. It's just a lack of interest. How about this?

In this game, this could be just a private thing or anyone else can jump in. If you want to trade in your sandwich, which will set it about $6 to $8 for a

tasty beverage at a local hole, Now I feel more galvanized to participate Oh, I like it All right, here we go So we're going to go one at a time I guess I'll start it I'll start with the overall ones

Where it's just more like a group And then we'll get specific We'll go one at a time And again gold standard You can get it on this Even Z drizzle if you want to get in on this Because I really hope you are back here In a few months

And we would love your sandwiches too We always take advantage of whoever's behind the glass They're always suck Oh they get killed Especially when they're just wrapping up their work responsibilities for a while. Especially when they're very little money. Especially when they're questionably informed about the sport. All right.

First one, here we go. Just like last year, the first signing. So it's 1 p.m. Eastern Time Tuesday, correct? Is when the free agency period, signing period begins? 1 p.m. Pacific, so 4 p.m. Eastern. 4 p.m. Eastern. Tuesday is when you can officially be signed to a contract.

I imagine how this game works. The football game, I mean. A lot of this stuff is taking care of before and they're just bang announced. The question is, who is the first signing that gets announced by one of the, either it's a team. Does it have to be a team announcement?

No, just the player. The first one we know about. The reporter works. First one by an insider or someone we deem to be a real reporter that we can count on. and trust the first name to come across our tweet deck okay we'll go around the horn we'll start with mark sessler going julius thomas do you have a prediction on a team uh raiders we don't

have but we don't have to just for the heck of it i'll go raiders okay julius thomas west kind of out of left field here same team pot roast to the raider i like that did you nail this last year too no i had brandon albert last year you had a big arthur jones uh i did nail arthur jones i nail where the judge was going to go pot roast has been whispered to them for a long time so that makes some sense okay i will go with tory smith somebody will be locked in on him we'll have something worked out tory smith first off the board i'm going in domiconsu and i'll save the team okay very good all right next the next overall prop most guaranteed money outside domiconsu who's going to get a lot as we know possibly the most ever guaranteed money uh for a defensive player who will get the most guaranteed money for a defensive

player who will get the most guaranteed money mark going jerry hughes jerry hughes defensive end this is a tough one for the donation this is a tough one i'm going off the board again i'm going mike you potty wow that's guard that kind of that makes sense it's it this was a great uh choice thanks a lot because really you could have come up with 10 pretty good options other than here's why did you just kill mine right before you got the hughes here's why west is smart too not a great market for Interior lineman, so I think he's going to they're going to, could be a feeding frenzy of that position.

You know what? Thank you for giving me that much credit. I didn't put that much thought into it. I just have five names listed and like that one. I will go with the aforementioned Julius Thomas, who's going to get a big fat contract by some foolish team like the Jaguars that will pay him to be a superstar, but he won't be. I feel good about

this one. Byron Maxwell. Okay. I think that's, I think he's got a good chance. And then finally and Gold Center, If you want to jump in on any of this, you just let us know. Final one. This is kind of the deep end of the pool. We'll wait.

It's a little bit. Thanks, yeah. Warm up the water first. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Appreciate it. And finally, before we get into our individual propositions, Endemic and Sue, where will he land? Mark Sessler.

This is tough. I'm going to go, lions. Ooh. Returning. Nice. Wes. I'm going to go dolphins. I think he wants to be in a place where he can,

build his brand, and Stephen Ross, the Dolphins owner, has been dying for superstars and name brand athletes there in Miami, so he's taking his town to South Beach. I automatically dislike athletes that make decisions based on building their brands. Didn't we just talk about this? But that's where you go to build your brand, Miami. Yeah, I will go with the Oakland Raiders. I was going to, I would have picked this whether or not Michael Silver's report came out today, but now I'm even feeling a little more confident.

Mike and Silver says they potentially have a visit set up. They're going to throw a lot of money at them. They need to help, and he's going to get a lot from the Raiders. Be sad if Sue went from the lines to the Raiders, what kind of career. I can use Oakland as leverage. I'm going to go Miami as well. Wes really put it well. I can just imagine, and he was my pick for the 401 sign.

I can just imagine like a picture of like Mike Tannenbaum with his arm around Sue in Miami. Big money. Wow. Even the Hicks there doesn't even get to do the best conference. It's Tannenbaum with a big power play in a big spot. Sorry, Hickey. You're out. Friend of the show, Mike Tannenbaum.

All right, that's good. All right, let's start now. Let's go with our individual ones. And so basically how that last section worked now. If we hit on any of those individually, everyone owes that person a sandwich, except for the Dolphins prediction there. I guess Mark and I would both divvy up sandwiches.

Yeah, you each give us this. Yeah, okay. So now, we'll start. We just give you half a sandwich. Yeah, we could do that too. You could always fudge the numbers. Here we go. We'll start now with our individual ones.

I'll get going with this one. I've been sneaky confident that this could happen for a while now, so I'll throw it out here. In this spot, Derell Revis, released by the pass. Who wants in? Oh, of course. I'll take it. Of course I'm going in.

I'll take that. All right, so, Wes, you're taking it? Maybe I'll jump in with the next one. By the way, track your own props here. We have our friend on Twitter. Yeah, track your own. that can help us out, but we should have our own bookmaking. So, Wes...

Well, I'll jump in because I have a Revis-related one, so might as well just get it out of it. Hang on, hang on. You all are. Everyone's keeping it. Where I'll take it? Cessler, you are? Gold standard. I am taking it, yep. Okay. I'm not participating yet.

I'm going to wait to drop the bottom on you guys. You haven't been paying attention. Mark's been paying attention. That's what I can see. I'm typing all in the game. He's learned some of his previous mistakes. You're too cautious before. Mark famously the worst at this game,

but this could be changing. He could be outthinking himself now. I'll take that Revis bet. I'm in on that one. I'm in on that one. Now I'm really hoping I never see you again. Oh, okay. That's nice.

I'm going to, I have a Revis one, so I'll go next. Mine was going to be that the Patriots keep Drell Revis and Devin McCordy. All stay in the fold. I'll take that. They would have franchised one of them if they were going to keep them both. They can't re-franchise Revis.

Well, I was going to do McCordy back to the Pats, so I'm not taking this one. I had that as one of mine as well, so I'm not touching that. But that doesn't mean they're both? You think they'll both look at V. I don't think he's going to the Jets. Talking about the Throne of E's. If he gets to the Throne of Eats, they get what they want. This is the throne of Eats.

If Reavits gets to the open market, he's going to the Jets, and I don't think that's happening. There's some different opinions. Okay. I'm very happy. I'm going to get a sandwich and Revis. Unless I just blocked their McCordy one. You're going to get a sandwich and Revis. Essentially, I'm getting two sandwiches from you now.

And Dorel Riven. Or you'll go hungry and not have a cornerback. Dan has had a good instinct for this game. The longer the shot, the better he's done. He had the Manzell Cowboys one. He had Incognito coming back into the league. He's had some. Oh, don't forget about our boy, Case Keenham, right?

Mansell Cowboys was wrong. And yet somehow, I still ended up on the plus side. You're in the past right now. All right. Who's up? Who's up? Mark. All right, I will go with one.

Brian Hoyer, Inks the contract. with a new team before Jake Locker? I don't care. I don't want to do that one. Yeah, that's a weird one. It's a weird one. Marks off to a tough start. Well, that's a...

All right. Ryan Hoyer, inks a contract. Because there's no way to, like, that doesn't mean one's better than the other, or it's hard to... That's like a straight guess. That's tough. I don't...

That's fine. Because I think they're both equally in demand, I guess. So it's... I'm saying they're not. Why? Who do you think they'll sign first? I want to take it just because this is a way to feed a former addiction and give me a little juice, you know, but I don't know. I don't care.

Greg finally acknowledges his past issues. I'm not even going to take it, though, because of the same reason. It just seems, who cares? Yeah, I don't see how you would have any knowledge that could tell you ahead of time how to vote on this one. And if you had said Hoyer more guaranteed money or more money, that'd be a different type of thing. All right. Well, thank you, gentlemen. game couldn't be any more pleasurable or fun

to play. Wes, you're up. With you people. You people. You're up, Christopher. Adrian Peterson does not play for the Vikings. I'll take that. That's a close... I'll take that because my next one was going to be Adrian Peterson stays with the Vikings. Might as well just jump in against you. I'll take that too. We have a lot of similar ideas here.

I don't know. Just when I saw Peterson at his home answering the door and a strange outfit of a white undershirt with black dress pants. You had your theory on that. What was your theory, Greg? Well, he was getting ready. He must have been getting ready. And Zimmer, and he's like, oh, no, Spilman's here.

And he just had to put something on quickly. He was like half-dress. Honey, they're here. He's like, what? You had another theory. I can't say my theory. He releases his statement. It doesn't say anything about how much he, you know, likes the Vikings and things are fine now.

He just hugged the general manager and the coach at his own home. Yeah, and then stuck them in the back and said, I'm going to the Cowboys. By the way, what could Adrian Peterson have possibly talked about for four hours with them? Well, it might have taken that long. I think it was an airing of grievances. Okay. It's like festivus.

All right, I will go, I'm putting myself out on a limb a little bit this one, but it's about having fun. That's what this is all about. DeMarco Murray signs with the cults. I'll take that. I also will take that. This is truly a problem for me.

because my whole theory on this game is you take everything basically you always take the field but on nfl.com right now we have our best fits of free agency on the site and my fit was demarko murray to the colts i didn't see that but i'm feeling quite the conundrum i guess i'm going to have to pass it feels wow that is that is unlike you go against my own best fit it would be great that is unlike you all right west and mark all right i'll go with one c j spiller will not wind up with the Jets. I'll take that. You think he's going to the Jets?

I think he's going to the Jets. I don't think he's going to the Jets. Am I giving Mark too much credit that he's made these ones that come up so that we'll never take them? And he'll just sort of stay out of the game almost. Might have been a strategy. I actually have C.J. Spiller's signs with the Jets as one of my proposition. I don't think he'll be with the Jets, so we don't have a deal then. I'm taking the field.

Cool. Okay? I got one. Ooh, Z-Drizzle. All right. Here we go. The Raiders get Cobb and Julianne, Julius Thomas. Kevin Cobb or Randall?

Randall, Cobb, and Julius Thomas. I'll take you on that. I've got, I'm taking you too. Yeah, we're all taking you. I will also take that. Love people from the other side of the class getting in. Yeah, wait in five months. What happened?

Did you eat Gold Standard? Where is you back there? Why are you insulting my weight? You are right that they do want. First you love Gold Standard, and you hate me. You know what? I'm just to go back to editing the podcast. I edit all the podcast.

I don't even... Not gold standard. You got it out. So we all took that. We were all taking that. You got to have quick yesterday. That was a record. That gets rid of my proposition that Cobb and the Packers will beat the deadline.

I will throw one out there just because it kind of ties in. Well, Sean McCoy and C.J. Spiller swap places. I think that C.J. Spillow is going to end up in Philly. Oh, I'm all over that. He just got rid of a guy who dances too much. He's not going to take someone who bounces everything to the outside. I could see him going there, but... Well, the Eagles.

actually talked to the bills about trading for Spiller way back when. But that was when Howie Roseman maybe... Did C.J. Spiller go to Oregon? No. That could put me in a bad spot. I will take that one again. Mark, are you taking that? Pick them off. Spiller to Eagles. Yes, I'll take it.

All right, thank you for the sandwiches. Mark is all over the sandwiches. All right, who wants to jump in? I'm looking forward to Mark's name. By the one we none of us take. Everyone save your best one for last, by the way. Giant Fire. Oh, I want two more.

Well, you've got to Marble... No, no, I'm not saying we're doing one more, but I'm saying save your best one. Oh, okay, I'm throwing one out. The Falcon signed either Brian Orakpo or Derek Morgan. That's interesting. The Falcon said... I hate to throw it back at you, but I'm not sure I'm interested enough.

Yeah. Well, this one you could do some studying on and figure it out, but I'm not quite prepared at this moment. I don't want to make any bet based on Brian Arakpoe. We don't bet. We don't bet, by the way. We're just throwing a sandwich talk. Any scenario.

Just sandwich talk. Little sandwich talk. Ducking sandwiches. You're just kind of, this is kind of like your Arthur Jones one this year. Yeah. No, I've got a few of these. Wes is trying to mailman us right now. I'm going to take you up on that.

I'll take it to. I'll take you up on that. Again, this is the thing. People, the more bets you take, or excuse me, the more propositions you take, more sandwiches you get. That's what the history of the game is. I shouldn't have given that strategy away. Go ahead.

We would have never reached that conclusion on our own. A super sleuth. Let's do two more each. Two more each. DeMarco Murray, you mentioned earlier. I'm going to say DeMarco Murray gets less guaranteed money than Pernel McPhee. And I chose those two because, you know. I agree with you.

Not a lot of people know. I agree with you. Name McPhee. Andy McPhee. I think you're right on that. I got news for you, nobody's taking this one. But Greg, you killed me for a boring. Yeah.

That was exciting. Yeah, way to go out on a limb. All right, how about this? People just like their cars skidding off the road as the words came out of your mouth on that. Let's talk more guaranteed money. Byron Maxwell gets more guaranteed money than Randall Cobb. Well, I said he was going to get the most. I think he will.

I think he will. I'm inside your head right now. I'm walking around, stretching, I'm putting my feet up on your white couch. I'm not... F your couch! I've already made more bets than all of the times we've done this combined, but I'm not taking that one. We don't do bets here.

I'll take this proposition. He's going to keep saying it. You will take it. Yeah, I'll take Cobb over Maxwell on guarantee. All we had to do was change the sandwich to a liquid. And Mark is on fire. He's suddenly a genius. No, I'm playing the game differently in the last.

He's like Ken Jennings on the sixth day of jennings. Come on, man, one more hour. We'll do one more hour. It'll be great. I'll throw out. Oh, no way. You said save the best one. I don't really happen.

I got one left personally. I've got a couple left. This is my Arthur Jones one. Jason Worlds signs with the Eagles. That one has been whispered a little bit. I'm sitting this one out. If he said it's his Arthur Jones, I'm not going to go against it.

That means he's very confident. No, I'm just playing it smart. I'm a little intimidated, too, because this one has been whispered around. Got to play the game smart. Jason World's one. Wes wouldn't pitch it if he was really confident in it. I'm not as confident as I was in Arthur Jones last year.

This is an act too. Now he's saying he's pulling back. Last year I was really confident about Arthur Jones. In fact, I have another Arthur Jones one. I feel like I need to just take this. It's almost like, you know, the first day in jail, you got to beat up the next toughest guy. I don't want to just mentally give in to you, so I'm just going to take it.

Oh, you just fell for it. All right. Staying away from them. You're going to keep track of who's taking these. I got it. The 49ers will sign Jerome Simpson, wide receiver. What? All right.

Confession, it popped up on tweet deck like 10 minutes ago. I should have went out. All right. Let's do, Wes, you had two more. Do one more, and then we'll do our last one each. Okay. All right, here is the real Arthur Jones one. I'm not going to do that either.

Either Pernell McPhee or Frank Gore will sign with the Colt. It's got involved the Colts to be the Arthur Jones. Well, I think McPhee makes a ton of sense for the same reasons that Jones did that you gave on Lasher's podcast, the ties with Pagano, et cetera, et cetera. So, staying away from that, Wes, sorry. I'm going to take it, Wes. Although, now I Google, I probably shouldn't. This is almost cheating.

But, of course, there's a Colts-Pernel McPhee post on Roderworld. That's not where I'm very, very interested. I'll take it anyways. I don't think you're going to have the magic touches. Roto World? Okay, I'll go with Greg on this. I'm going to get Greg's boat. All right.

All right, guys. So let's do one more now each. And I see the Goldstander's starting to, he's grinning now. I think he's ready to throw it out there. But actually, let's do that. Let's throw it to Gold Standard. Let's hear, last year he predicted wrongly that Golden Tate would sign with the Titans, if I'm correct.

I don't even. So you thought he was going to leave the NFL entirely. He's the pride of Hendersonville, Tennessee. Yeah, but why would you sign with a CFL team? I don't understand. Oof. I would throw the heat thing out, but it's a little rough. It's fine.

And you got that wrong and, you know, but in keeping with that theme, you gentlemen in probably seven, well, actually very shortly, we'll probably receive four lovely sandwiches for this Golden Tate bet. No, you got us for that. No, no, no, we're all good. I'm just saying it'll happen again because there's no way I'm correct on this. But Golden Tate last year finished with 99 catches. I am predicting that Golden Tate will amass a century of receptions.

I will take that in second. I will take that too. I'm all over that. First of all, it was supposed to be a free agency sandwich. That's okay. You've now extended the thing in the January. By then you're working.

Who knows where you're working? For me, these are Golden Tate sandwiches. It's Golden Tate. There's nothing to do with free agency. And I feel really good about this. Eric Ebron, you would think he's going to have a bigger role. Calvin Johnson, he stays healthy, who have a bigger role in the offense. That's what you think.

I'll take it too. We're all taking it together. All right. I hope you enjoy the sandwiches. I like your confidence. All right, last one. And this one I said downstairs, for one, kind of really, you know, hang your onions out to dry. It's gross.

But do that. Really get gutsy, throwing out there. We'll start with Mark because I'm curious, where Sessler is at? Because he was grinning at that computer desk. Well, that could have been about anything, but listen, this, you said it could be related to free agency number one. So Cleveland went out and signed a free agent quarterback in Josh McCown. My bet is that with Johnny Mansell, not a bet, tucked away, I'm going to keep saying it to annoy you, tucked away at, you know, promises in Malibu, wherever he is right now.

Josh McCown does not start week one. So once again, this is sort of more of a seasonal bet. Yeah, we talked about even downstairs. It could be free agent-related. I'll take it. Yeah. Yeah. They gave him a lot of money to be a bridge guy to Manzo who's not ready.

Not even living in his house right now. I have so little faith in Josh McCown that you have both fallen into my trap. I think the Browns fell into the trap. I'll take it, too, just by principle. Okay. I love it. All right, I'm going to do another quarterback one. An old buddy of Josh McCown.

Jay Cutler will not be a member of the Chicago Bears. I don't know what the end date is for this. Week one? I'll give you to. Well, they've got to cut him before that, though, right? The reality is it's kind of off. By the time he's practicing. You say he won't.

I think he will be. The end date's the draft, really. I think that coaching staff, there'll be one more staff to get sucked into saying we could fix Jay Cutler and think Fox. This was supposed to be the one, you know, a little gutsier or whatever. It's gutsy. Definitely would be an upset. I respect it, and I will take you up on it.

Okay. No? I'm not taking it. If I was running the Bears, that guy wouldn't quarterback for me. Well, okay. Mark. I will take it because there's so little else out there. Yeah, that too.

All right. That's why I think they can find someone for him. Maybe the Jets. Christopher Wessling, please know. Oh, this is a hanging onion. one. Oh, hang the onions. We could get this sponsored.

By Vidalia. Let's see. I'm going to go back to the Colts again. They've been good to me in this game. That's where Brandon Marshall ends up. I'll take that. I'll take it. I'll take that, too.

All right. That wasn't very onions-y, but it is. It's not? You get the other 31 teams? It's not like creative, but it is a long shot. Yes. All right. And finally, this, I mean, this is onions.

I didn't even really do the math. I just kind of threw it out there, and maybe if it works out, I'll be happy. You should take it. Domican Sue gets more guaranteed money than all of the running backs in our top 101 list combined. So that is 11 guys. DeMarco Murray, Mark Ingram, Ryan Matthews, Ryan Matthews, Art. That's kind of a fun one. Spiller.

What is Spiller's his first name? I'm blanking out. T.J, excuse me. Frank Gore. Frank Gore. It stands for Chet Jerry. Carl Spiller,

Frank Gore, Shane Verene, Fawcett, Reggie Bush, Ridley, Hulu, Thomas. Pierre Thomas.

All 11, add them up. They will have less guaranteed money than Endomican Sue will get from Well,

I think the Raiders, but could be anybody. Could be upwards of 60 million, from what I understand. This hurts my brain. That's how you do it That's how you play this game

You play to wean the game I think it's I'm so non-math oriented That I'm like I'm not I'm not willing to take this I need to go down and work on it on paper Listen this is an onions hanger But it's probably working out here

It is in some degree To some degree You love hangers Musing Matthews This is great radio by the way Yeah it's true Oh it's dramatic

It's good. Hulu gets, like, negative guaranteed money. Hold on, let's see. Well, really, your first year is guaranteed. So it's like if Hulu signs a one-year $3 million contract, that's, you know, three. So really, you've got to think what's the average. I don't think I'm going to take it. I think Sue will top.

Yeah. Sue's going to get more than 60 probably, right? That's what you're saying? I don't know, but I read that somewhere. It could top that. Yeah. I've got these running backs tabulated right of upper 40s, low 50s. I think Murray maybe gets 10.

Very rudimentary. For guaranteed. Yeah, I've got Murray at 10 and spill her slightly below 10. I'm feeling good about this because if you got your onions hanger and nobody takes it and then hopefully you clean up on other people's onion hanger, that's how you win this game. Maybe. But then maybe you weren't really hanging. They weren't really hanging.

Oh, come on. That's a good hanger right there. I just said one guy would make more than 11 others. But we all agree with you. I think we agree. It was a good one, though. He's saying in his addition, he says 60 to 50 or something, and it could be any, it's very close.

Yeah, I have no idea. It's all rudimentary. Well, now you've just inspired me to just take it. Oh, yeah. Good. You hooked him. I don't care. It's good.

Realed it in. I don't like this self-satisfied error. It's still happy. That was the best one. I'm happy about it. All right. That's it. Those are the propositions.

Who is our friend on Twitter, by the way, who tracks all these things? Nick Fortier? He got to send him something. He should tell us how it's pronounced. Fortier or Fortier. Nick, you shoot us a tweet, or DM us, your favorite team. We've got to get you something. You do so much work for us.

You're a great man. Gold Center, don't worry about that. We'll have TD do it. Okay, great. Perfect. Thanks, yes. All right. So that's it for Go Get My Lunch.

Moron. We will be back on Monday. Is that correct? That is the eve of free agency. So make sure you got to make sure you tune in for that one because there's going to be some stuff cooking over the weekend, a lot percolating before everything goes down on Tuesday. So we'll be there Monday, and then we'll have a show that wraps up

the first day of free agency on Wednesday, and then we'll be back at the end of the week. And that will inch us closer to win West's toaster also, which is coming back. So keep on sending in submissions for that. This is Dan Hansa signing off for Quiet Storm. The Mailman, the boss, the gold standard behind the glass. And one last time, Z-Drizzle. We love you, buddy.

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