The Fumblerooski Podcast - I Am Speed -Ep 430 The Fumblerooski Podcast

Episode Date: March 3, 2026

On today’s episode, the Lions send David Montgomery to the Texans for Juice Scruggs and picks. Does this make the Texans better, and what does this say about the Joe Mixon situation at hand? Along with other NFL news, we take a look at the risers and fallers after this weekend’s Combine. The fastest we’ve ever seen?? Chris Costich, Justin Tucker, and CJ Medeiros talk all this and more!

On today's episode of the Fulmourski podcast, NFL Combine has come to an end, so we'll get into some of the takeaways from this past weekend, along with some breaking news in the NFL sphere. This is the Fulmuriski podcast. It may not have always showed it in the staff sheet, but you can see him making throws when he needs to make the throws. Back-to-back games where he has three touchdowns. Someone's got to get that six or seven spot.

He's an elite wide receiver as a rookie. truly a lose-lose scenario for both sides. Welcome to the Full Burrushki podcast by PowerD18 Radio and Secret Weapon Consulting. We got CJ. We got tuck. We got myself, Chris. Let's get into it. Breaking news that just broke about 1130, 1115, Eastern Standard.

We're recording on 1141. The Lions have traded 10. David Montgomery to the Texans. The trade officially, there was a couple conflicting reports right out of the gate. Diana Rossini had reported that it was Drew Scruggs. Excuse me. It was Drew Scruggs and a fourth and a six-round pick for David Montgomery.

Shepter had reported it was a fifth round pick. that's kind of up in the air right now. I think something came official, but the big thing, David Montgomery is now a Houston Texan, uh, leaving, well,

leaves Jemir Gibbs as the RB1 over in Detroit and kind of leaves you wondering, what do the Texans know about Joe Mixing that we don't? But all in all, the Texans up there running game a little bit at the very least, or not a little bit, a lot of it, giving Stroud some more help in the run game, provide a little bit less pressure off of them. Thoughts on the trade from you guys.

Oh, man. Oh, man, Sonic and Knuckles are no longer together. That crazy one-two points that they had in Detroit, gone. Well, I think Detroit is okay with getting rid of David Montgomery because they found a clear-cut RV1 and Jemir Gibbs. I think something is going on in Houston where they needed to get running back help. I don't know what's wrong with Joe Mixon. I thought Woody Marks was okay.

I thought that would have been fine, but I guess they needed more running back help. And I could see it. I'm not sure who's going to be the running back one or two, but I think he's going to help that running attack. I think the Texans still need more work, specifically on the offensive line for this to be truly effective, because you have to give David Montgomery something to work with. The Texans don't really have a lot to work with. So there's that.

And I think Detroit, what, they got Ben Scruggs? Drew Scruggs, yes. He's a lineman, right? Yep. He was on the final year of his rookie deal. So what you're telling me is the Texans just lost another piece of their O-line, gave it to the Detroit lines, and they're in the worst spot on the O-line than when they rarely started. They got a running back, though. They got a running back, but the trenches are awful on the offensive side.

So, I'm not, this doesn't help them in the immediate future. either they see something in the offseason where they can get a big time player to help the line, or they see something in the draft. Outside of that, I don't know what Houston is doing. If I was them, I'd spend every single pick on an offensive line, if I could. Well, there's that. And the problem is the offensive line is getting even worse than you realize, because also today the Texans are trading their right tackle Titus Howard to Cleveland for.

round pick. So you just lost your starting center and you're starting right tackle for an offensive line that was it was improved over last year, but like it was also kind of mediocre still, you know? And granted C.J. Stroud doesn't look like he's the guy anymore, but even, but what you got to consider is the offensive line isn't exactly doing him any favors. I mean, granted, that's not, you know, that that's not preventing him for making his usual bonies. headed throws, but still it doesn't help is all I'm saying. And as for David Montgomery, yeah, Chris, I think you and Tuck, you both hit the nail on the head where that means, the fed they're trading for David Montgomery means that

Joe Mixon's injury is probably worse than we think. If that's, if that makes sense. They obviously know something we don't. Who knows? I mean, because Joe Mixin at one point was thought to come back. And it's like, all right, he might come back this week. And it keeps going week to week to week to the point where they just said, no, they're just going to shut them down.

Yeah. Yeah. You know how running backs are. Once they get up there, it can be kind of difficult. But as for Detroit, that one-two punch, man, that's just gone. They're like, you know, Sonic and Knuckles. They had that cool nickname. It's broken up.

There were some whispers that Monk, Montgomery wanted out because let's be real, you can say a lot about him, but Jamir Gibbs definitely like alphaed him out of that role. Oh, yeah. Gibbs like snatched like slowly just started gobbling up like all of his touches. It was only a matter of time before at least one of them was going to get moved. Yeah. And Montgomery, you know, he went out and denied reports that he wanted out because

his underdog NFL retweeted that Fowler thing where it's like Montgomery wants out and Detroit wants a decent day three pick and return and Montgomery's like wow, who told you that? Wow, I told you that. No, I didn't. You know what I mean? But yeah, apparently

he's a bit of a fibber because he got trade regardless. So yeah, I guess he wanted out. Yeah. Yeah. I think this whole situation with Joe Mixing now is very interesting.

Like, you know, he had a foot injury that happened. And that was the big thing that was kind of holding him back. And then I was listening, a part of my take and they had Adam Schepter on. And they were saying that like there could be like a necrosis thing going on as well. There was some sort of setback that they had in the middle of, or maybe not necrosis, but I forgot what the medical term he used. But there was some weird setback that he had going on in the middle of the season and problem is that, you know, the Texans weren't up front about the whole thing of like, hey, Joe Mix is going to miss the rest of the season. Or he had this, like, there's just nothing about it.

So the whole situation's weird. And you couple it in with the fact that Mixon's on, uh, mixing is now over 30 years old, too. You had to, you had to make a move at some point. But damn, Sonic and Knuckles. Yeah. The one-two tandem no longer there no more. Did Jamir Gibbs post something about this? Not that I'm aware of.

Let me check. I don't think you did. But, yeah, arguably the best one-two punch in the league's been broken up. So that sucks. But then again, I think Jemir Gibbs, especially with his receiving ability, is more than capable. And if you have David Montgomery in any Dynasty Fantasy leagues, you can rejoice. The handcuff is broken. I wouldn't go that far.

Woody Marks is still there. Be careful. Yeah, okay, yeah. But Woody Marks, I just don't think, is that much of a handcuff, you know. Montgomery should easily be Numero Uno. Yeah. Doesn't seem anyone's or Tamara Gibbs has posted anything. I'm not really sure what his account on Twitter is.

but a lot of meat, but when you search Damir Gibbs on Twitter, a lot of, a lot of memes of like, Jamir Gibbs owners in Dynasty right now, and everyone's like geeking out. Yeah. Their sleeper just posted,

Jamir Gibbs next year in a workhorse rule, and it's just LT highlights. Yeah, literally. Yeah. There's a very real chance we could see an LT year out of Jamir Gibbs. There's a very real chance. chance. Until the lions go running back round two and send all that right to hell. Yeah, for real. Anything else we want to touch on from this? Does this put the Texans in any better spot to win the division?

Literally no. No. I think when... Does this do anything for Detroit? Not really, no. It was a trade. We'll say that. It was a trade. We'll say that. It was a trade. It was a trade that happened. I was about to say, who was their center last year for Detroit? I know it was not even good, and they were caught with their

pants down because Frank Ragnow retired, and they had to scramble to find a replacement. Then he tried to unretire, and then he didn't pass the physical. Graham Glasgow. Yeah, and I also heard that I remember that Detroit

had problems with their O-line, like their guard spots. So maybe they're trying to fix that right now. Maybe. But outside of that, this doesn't, this doesn't do nothing for me. This is a mid trade. Yeah. If they did not getting juice scrugs, then that's a silver lining.

Yeah. All right. In other news, this morning, the Chiefs released Juan Taylor. Yes. Yes, they did it. Basically, AK, the man known as the most flagged, tackle for false starts that you could have ever imagined and probably could have gotten more flags for false starts

that weren't called. So this for the chiefs, this frees up. There was like 27 mil of dead cap or something like that. I mean, let me check it again, but they bring up some cast base doing it, which was the biggest thing. I should have had this. fucking CapTracker ready to go. But isn't it

like they lose 20 million or they gain 20 million if they release them? Yeah, yeah, they gained 20 million. There was like 27. Now I got to look for the Rappaport tweet. Now I got to, now I got to do more research. It says that 20 million.

I'm looking at JPA who quoted Ian Rappaport. All right, there you go. So, yeah, that's probably a good thing that they did that, you know, He was literally Mr. False Start. And you only got probably about half the flags he should have gotten. I don't know what it is. Like he always jumps before the ball snap.

Like, I don't know if it's a mental thing or if it's a coaching thing or I don't know. The thing for the chiefs is, though, I just, who are you going to replace him with? Because the chiefs do have a tackle problem. Like the interior of the line is fine. You know, you've got Creed Humphrey. you've got Trey Smith, you've got that left guard, what's the name, Sue Matia, Kingsley, Sue Matia, Mataya. But who are your tackles? I mean, you have that one dude you drafted from Ohio State in the first round last year, Simmons,

but he's injury prone, he was injury prone in college, and he, I think, tore his ACL to end the year last year. So that's going to be a problem. And right tackle, you don't really have anyone, so I don't know. And there's a school of thought about error prone, like penalty prone tackle is okay. If they, you know, like somebody who gets really gravy and draws a lot of holds or someone who falls starts is fine. You know, if they can keep your quarterback up right. But now you don't even have someone who can keep your quarterback up right. Like the Kansas City offensive line, especially at tackle, is becoming really iffy.

Also, Sue Mataya at left guard is a little uninfiring as well. So I think this should, if my math is correct, which is probably not. It's not what I went to college for. If it should put the chiefs in the green, maybe, hopefully. No. But not by a lot. According to SpotTrac, it has him still 8 mil in the red. Oh, yeah.

Okay. Yeah. And there must have been more dead money than I thought. Well, let's not forget. Yeah, like the chiefs were also like almost dead last in terms of a cap space coming into this. No, not almost. They were. So yeah, I guess.

So if it cleared up over 20 million, because I remember they were like negative 14, I think. If that got to eight, then there, then there must have been a lot of dead money incurred. So every little bit helps. But if they're still in the red, then I don't know. Yeah, I mean, at this point, who's going to be the. next guy to go. If I had a guess, it might be a, you might clown me for this, but I would not rule out

a blockbuster Chris Jones trade. Yeah. Because I'm sorry, he just wasn't the same guy. And there were a lot of times, especially, you know, during that Jacksonville game, most notably, that was just a symptom of larger problem where he would just take plays off. Like the effort is just not there. And you saw him already thumping his chest about the offseason. It's like, oh, when we get Mahomes back, we're going to go right back to the Super Bowl. Like, no, you won't. Have you seen the amount of free agents, like impact players that you have, and you are still in the red and you cannot afford to resign any of them?

Like, dude, you guys might be cooked here. Like, as honestly of Mahomes, you have a chance, but. And going into, especially going into this season and after they restructured Mahomes contract, Chris Jones is currently the highest paid player on the Chiefs. And it's 32 years old and he's under contract and not a free agent until 2029. Yikes. Also, there are some really important players on our team to hit three sign, like Brian Cook, Isaiah Pacheco, Leo Chenal, Travis Kelsey.

So. Yeah, they probably shouldn't. But still, Brian Cook is a really important piece of that secondary. Chenal, you know, he and Nick Bolton have that ferocious tandem at linebacker. Kelsey's like, honestly, even if Kelsey's not that good, the fans are going to roast Andy Reid and Brett Veach on a spit if, you know, if they don't bring back Kelsey. Do you think he would sign somewhere else? I don't know. I don't know.

I doubt, Kelms are going to sign anywhere else. Yeah. I mean, if they gave them a vet minimum deal, they're still in the res and they could afford it. Yeah. Chris Jones needs to do something about that contract. He's not going to. Like, no, it seems that nobody else be it Tray Smith, Creed Humphrey, Chris Jones, like, they just don't seem to want to change their contract. Hell, I mean, that got Tuny traded because Tuny for like the past two years didn't want to restructure his deal.

Yeah. Yeah. Fair enough. It's, yeah, have linemen restruct, asking Lyman to restructure their deal is definitely a little bit more interesting than asking, like, your quarterback to restructure their deal. Yeah, a lot of linemen, like, you know, we mentioned Trent Williams last episode, and it's like a running thing, too. Like, you do not ask a lineman to restructure. For some reason, they really don't like that. Well, I mean, it makes sense. They're in the trenches.

They are the big reason why your quarterback is still alive half the time. I mean, granted, but like, come on. Like, don't you want to win? And it's not like they're going to take less money or just, I mean, maybe this year, but they'd just be making more the next. Like, you know, that's how a restructuring works. The money just doesn't go away. Yeah, but you also.

I wish I would take less right now because of Tyler Lindenbaum. He's not taking less. Yeah. You also don't really know. You also don't know what the future holds. You could... If it's guaranteed, then they're going to get it because, you know, guaranteed. Yeah.

Like, Chris Jones getting 60-milled guaranteed. Right? Like, yeah, you probably shouldn't. Yeah. 60-mill guaranteed at signing. Total guaranteed 95. Jesus. Yeah.

That's just Chris Jones. you uh cj kind of briefly mentioned this before we uh got started recording but uh kailer's kailer murray's going to be set to

get released by the cardinals um is this uh are they wait until june 1st to do it like the dolphins are they just going to or are they just going to send it i think they might just send it honestly uh this is on jpa football they quoted ian rapapore here

says the Cardinals are set to early's quarterback Kyler Murray, barring a last-minute trade. He will have plenty of suitors as a free agent. So I'm thinking that they're just going to send it. Yeah, makes sense. And there was another report saying that him on the Jets could be a very real possibility. That was Matthew Berry on NBC. He keeps hearing about Murray ending up with the Jets. And the Vikings, I imagine, are trying to make a run.

at him too. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like the Vikings' choices maybe a little bit more dwindled than some may realize. Yeah.

It's getting so bad as being of the Vikings real quick. There, you know, Derek Carr said he wants to maybe come out of retirement and play for a good team. There are rumors that he might just show up for the Vikings, you never know. And the Vikings are also released.

releasing Javon Hargrave and Aaron Jones to try to free up cap space, which they need. So who really is that official? Yeah. That's Adam Schaefter. When was that? A couple hours ago. Oh, a couple hours ago when I saw it. I don't know how I missed that.

It's cool. But back to Kyler. Yeah. He obviously, when we knew. he was getting that deal. We all thought it was a bad idea. And this is just a theory that I've been working over in my head.

I think drafting a mid-tier solid quarterback is worse for your franchise than drafting a bus. Like, honest to God, you should, I think it would be better for your team

to draft a J.J. McCarthy type than a Kyler Murray type. Explore. Yeah, okay, I will. That's what I was going to do. Thank you for that. I'm just saying, think about it this way.

A quarterback who can put up like 36 to 3,900 yards and 25 touchdowns, like 12 picks in a year, that's not going to win you anything. However, that's also too good for you to let them walk. For a bust, you know what you have, you know they're terrible, and when they're on their rookie deal, you can decline their fifth-year option, you can either let them walk or cut them and take really not that much of a salary hit. But when you draft someone who's mid, I'm talking the tier of guys like Kyler Murray, guys like to a tug of a lower, you know, maybe they're just like a one year wonder,

you know what I mean? Guys like that where you're going to have to pay them an absurd amount of money, when you know they're not the guy, when you know that they're going to deliver you limited, if any playoff success. When you know that you're not getting a ring with them, but they're also too good for you to let walk. Because these starting caliber are really good quarterbacks. They don't hit the market every day, obviously.

So you're kind of stuck. Like you have to because a lot of these coaches would rather be mediocre than bad. It's what we call like the Kirk Cousins tier, where Kirk Cousins is a very solid, very capable quarterback. And I think Kyler Murray is too. I think he's capable. The talent is there. But when you draft them in the first round, you're kind of handcuffed to them because they're not bad enough for you to let go.

So you're literally going to settle for mediocrity. Meanwhile, if you draft the bus, you can just try again. You can kick into the curb and you can try again because the project quarterback is essentially dead. But if you get someone who's mid, you're stuck. Like you are just completely stuck because they're too good for you to let walk. I don't know. And of course, it would just become the literally just the sunk cost fallacy. Oh, well, we've already invested this much into them.

See, because if they're not winning, that's fine. But if they're putting up solid numbers, you literally don't have a choice. I don't, maybe it's just me, but I do think Kirk Cousins is better than Kyle and Murray. Maybe. Well, yeah, but the thing is, it's different paths to the same result. Like, you're not winning a Super Bowl with either. And that's like the point to win a Super Bowl. So if you're getting like these just mid-quarterbacks that you have to pay nine figures to just to not win, because you don't have to pay a bust.

Just pay that. It's just a theory. Maybe. I see your point, but I think the numbers Kyle Murray and Kirk Cousins could put up in a season are good enough to get a team with a strong running. game to the playoffs. I could see. Okay, but to a Super Bowl? To a Super Bowl. Can you see Kurt Cousins or Kyler Murray hosting a Lombardi? With all due respect, no, you can. We said that about if you can, then I would like whatever you're on. We said that about Sam Donald last year. Actually, I was the only one that said that said otherwise. Yeah, and for what it's worth,

uh, Sam Darnold's one season in Minnesota was better than Kurt. and that was also better than Kyler's. Okay. I see what you're saying because of the record, but the stats Kirk Cousins put up while he was at Minnesota. And I don't care if you want to do season and season. They're comparable to what Sam was doing. Okay, but you have to ask yourself,

is Sam the rule or Sam the exception? Because I'm telling you, like, Kyler Murray, he's not going to do that. Like, you're not. And furthermore, I don't even think Donald's contract is even more expensive than Murray's. I think they're actually paying him market rate. Yeah.

So, but still, that's my point. Also, the Seahawks didn't draft him, so you've completely dodged that point as well. I'm just saying it's better to draft a bust and move on than to be handcuffed to a quarterback who is just thoroughly mid. I'm not going to harbor the point, but I see what you're saying, but I'm not sure if I fully agree with it just yet. I didn't ask you to.

All right. Great. We're going to take a quick break. When we come back, we're going to get into the NFL Combine. This is the Falmaruski podcast. It may not have always showed it in the stat sheet, but you can see him making throws when he needs to make the throws. Back-to-back games where he has three touchdowns. Someone's got to get that six or seven spot.

He's an elite wide receiver as a rookie. Truly a lose-lose scenario for both sides. All right, NFL Combine. We did most of our combine stuff last week in terms of the NFL news that was coming out of the combine. Now, let's actually talk about prospects themselves. Some impressive stuff that happened. We had a motherfucker that jumped 45 feet in the air, or 45 inches, I mean, 45 feet would be weird. 45 inches.

But I'll leave it to you guys. Takeaways from the combine. CJ. Thank you. So the guy who jumped 45 inches was Vanderbilt, tight end, Eli Stowers from Vanderbilt, who he's definitely one of the big risers of this year's combine. It's not close. Well, the only other one in his position is a huge riser.

I didn't say the biggest. I said one of them. But the only other tie-end that did better. Byronk, it was the only other tight end in front of him in Kenya. Sanique from Oregon, who's out there moving like a wide receiver. So, hey, you can't even. Hey, what a time to be alive. I've got them tight ends moving like receivers, but they can't block.

So, oh well. But all jokes aside, Stowers, I think, has wrestled away tight end two from Ohio State's Max Claire, who just really couldn't separate himself. So that's huge, right? another riser is, remember Trey Lance, his brother, NDSU wide receiver Bryce Lance. This man ran a 43440-yard dash and he killed it in the broad jump, killed it in the short shuttle. He's a 95th percentile athlete as well.

And apparently from this guy who was supposed to be like a six or seventh round pick, don't it, Chris. He's now, we're possibly looking at like a mid to early third. This man saved his stock and maybe he could fix the Lance name. I don't know. But one of the biggest risers of all was running back Mike Washington Jr. from Arkansas. He ran a 43340 and he's a 99th percentile athlete. And he's not a little dude either. He's 6-1, 233. He's been a sleeper. But There are some who say maybe he could wiggle himself into the first round. Me personally, I'm going to be frank. I don't see that.

I think the only running back going in the first round is Jeremiah Love of Notre Dame, who solidified himself as RB1. But Mike Washington is definitely like a top five, perhaps top three running back these days. Now, some other risers, I'm going to go over them fast because they're already going in the first round. I mentioned him earlier, Kenyon Sadiq from Oregon. He set the fastest 40 time for a tight end at like 439. Yeah. And for a guy who could have gone like late first,

I recently saw mock draft that had him going ninth overall to Kansas City. But then again, mock drafts, especially this year, you kind of have to take with a grain of salt because I saw four of them today where they were all different. Like outside of Fernando Mendoza, no one can agree on who's, going where, let alone who's going in the first round, because some people have guys that, you know, that I personally have as day two picks going in the first round. So who knows. But at another one, of course, Ohio State linebacker Sonny Stiles, who actually might have punched his ticket to being a top 10 pick. Because I thought he was going to go first round,

even though he was, or mid-first round, even though he was one of my favorite players coming out. I was holding out a tiny grain of sand worth of hope that he was going to fall into New England. He is not, sadly. And yeah, he's going to go top ten now, I think. And also another one who punished, who solidify themselves going top ten, Notre Dame running back Jeremiah Love. There are rumors that the Titans are looking at him, and they could leverage his past catching ability to help Cam Ward.

So that's great. But real quick, because I know I'm the draft guy and I go on. I'm sorry about that guys. but real quick, we got to go over some fallers. For me, the biggest faller was, you know, he had the most to gain but also the most to lose, and he lost it. Notre Dame wide receiver Malachi Fields.

I saw two mock drafts that had him going late in the first round because I'll be real. He's a physical specimen, you know, big body jump ball wide receiver, right? Yeah. He's drooling over that archetype now. But he ran in four-stream, one. 40. Yeah, his ass is not going in the first round now. What was the 40?

4661. And get this. This is on Pro Football Focus. They said his numbers for the Combine, right? Compare closely to Bill's receiver Keon Coleman. Oh, yeah. That's right. He's not going second round. Yeah.

So I could see him. there's a shot he falls out of the second round as well another faller speaking nother dame players is notre dame running back jadarian price who formed a lethal one-two punch with jeremiah love price his numbers were fine his numbers themselves are good but he just got outclassed by guys like set mcgowan from kentucky the aforementioned mike Washington Jr. You know, so there's that. And as far as quarterbacks go, let's be real.

Mendoza's far and away number one, right? Ty Simpson is number two. Yes. The gap between number one and two is huge, but the gap between two and three is even larger. Three is anyone's game. A lot of people had Garrett Nussmeyer going in. But there were three quarterbacks,

who could have leapfrogged him. North Dakota states Cole Payton, Arkansas's, Taylin Green, and Penn State's Drew Aller. Now, Aller and Green, I think, are great project quarterbacks. Do not take them in the first round. Do not take them in the second round. But would you have Drew Aller, who's just this tall, like, Peyton Manning-style build

with a rocket arm, and Tailing Green, who reminds me a lot in the good way, of Anthony Richardson. So, and Colt Payton, who went from undrafted to possibly being a mid-round pick, I definitely think as there's a bit of a QB craze sweeping the league, because this is just not going to be a very QB heavy draft. They're going to need to try to find gems or they can. And I can say these guys, we might have a gem alert here.

But for the love of God, do not take them in the first or second round. They are projects, and that is not where projects should go. I was going to ask you about Vanderbilt quarterback and how and where you. Oh, yeah. No, no, no. I don't care the Vanderbilt quarterback for those who don't know Diego Pavia. Yeah, I don't care how we tested at the combine. Size matters for a quarterback.

Pause. For a quarterback. You don't have to say pause. Also, I love how whenever I say pause, you yokels jump on me. But when Chris says pause, ha, hi, it's so funny. Yeah, there's a double standard here. Well, yeah, because when you say pause, it's whenever someone's like, hey, I love you, man. Like, that's not a pod for any.

That's such a, I can't even say what I was going to say. That would get me thrown off the show. But, but, but the thing with Pavia is that height matters for a quarterback. That's just true. And despite the fact, Vanderbilt measured in at six feet, that was a lie. He's not even 5-11. Apparently he's not even 5-10.

He's like 5-9 and 7-8s or 5-9 and 6-8s or something to that effect. Like he would be, I think, the shortest quarterback like ever drafted or something, or at least in this millennium. No, that means Kyler's taller than him. Yes, Kyler is taller than him. because this dude, like, unless the Cardinals and Oklahoma were lying, which isn't very possible. But no, no, no. The, we all know, we all know this, that the, the measurers, that they tend not to lie.

Or sometimes they do. Sometimes they've been caught, you know, maybe fib in a bit. But no, no, Diego Pavia not being 5'10. Yeah, I don't care about his performance at Vanderbilt. You will, you cannot see over an NFL offensive line. And if Kyler Murray and Bryce Young struggle with it, then Pavia will as well. Like that is just, that, that is the only way really to slice it here. Yeah.

You want to take the, should I take this away, Chris? Yeah, sure. Go for it. Dude. The one thing I took away from him from all this testing is I, one of the things was, I think Ohio State has the potential to do something in NFL draft history that's never been done before. have four players go on the top 10.

Because the way Sonny Stiles tested, the way Arvel Reese tested, the way Caleb Downs has been a dog all year, they have four potential players to go in the first round. The closest that has happened was Alabama in 2021. That was the rugs, Waddle Smith, and then Matt Jones went at 15. They have the potential to have all four of their first round picks to go within the top 10. that's just how good they tested at the combine. Arvel Reese was Arvel Reese. Sunny Sal stepped up. I don't see anything

the damaging happening at the combine. I still think Caleb Downs is still going Topsin no matter what. And I'm forgetting someone. Carnell Tate, wider, storer. Carnell Tate.

I don't see him leaving the Tops in either. The problem with Tate was that he ran a 452 and a lot of people are iffy about that. but the hand timer that a lot of teams used, I saw this on a JPA, where there were a lot of reports saying that they think the league timed Carnell Tate wrong. Apparently, many GMs and executives, when they put their heads together,

recorded Tate at a 445 to 447. 452 is obviously a bit different, so I don't know, somebody's wrong. This is per Adam Schaefter. But yeah, I see. still think Tate is probably, he could go top 10 to your point. Yeah, and I think he's the clear number one right now after what happened to Mikai Lemon, but I think he was the better receiver on the field and off the field, we saw the combine interviews. So we saw the reports there. So I do think that

all four of them have the potential to go top 10 within the first round, which would be historic, by the way. I did not expect Arkansas running back to run a 433. I knew he was fast, not that damn fast. But I'm not sure if that'll show up on the game tape, but I think his draft scott improved significantly. We already talked about the Vanderbilt quarterback Pavia.

I knew he was shorter than what he was listed. Wasn't going to say anything, but now that it's out there. Well, tuck's frozen. That's unfortunate. You okay, Tuck? He's back. He's back. Okay.

I don't know what happened, but you guys just went off my swing as well. Well, you're back. You're back. That's all that matters. All right. But all in all, I think it was an interesting draft. Is it just me or does everyone feel like it's getting faster and faster with the players? Oh, so I was actually just about to figure that up.

Yep. every single position group outside of the quarterbacks ran the fastest average 40 time of all time. And the quarterback class was second of all time. Oh, I don't know. I don't know if people are just taking the combine more seriously. I don't know if they're just training better. But I remember when Chris Johnson ran the 40 and it was a significant thing. And then John Ross ran his 40 time in 2017 and he broke it.

Now it feels like almost every other year. there's a potential someone might break the 40 time. It's like, oh, that's just, that's just where we are in just sports in general. Everyone's just a better athlete than there were like 40 years ago. Yeah. I mean, no, you're right, you're right. Yeah, I mean, this has been like 45 feet. That's the draft ever, yeah.

Hey, maybe, maybe. But there was something else, though, that I, did want to bring up about the wide receivers you mentioned them. So apparently I thought that was going to hurt Carnell Tate, his 40. But one of the biggest followers at wide receiver outside of Fields isn't even someone who ran the 40. It was Mackay Lemon from USC. And apparently his interviews tanked. Like I don't know what was said.

I don't know what happened. But apparently his interviews were just atrocious. I don't know if it was a personality thing, if it was a scheming thing, if it was he couldn't name. I don't know what, which is weird because I thought he was a dog at USC. Granted, I'm not the highest on him. He's my wide receiver four, but, like, but I still thought he was going to go in the first round. So I don't know. Like, he's probably one of the biggest followers as well.

Also, shout out Mississippi States and Brennan Thompson. I think he had the fastest 40 in this class, and he definitely secured himself as a day two pick. Yeah, I still think Lemon's going to go in the first round. I think it's Tate, him, and then the Arizona State wide receiver. I think those are three. Yeah, I think those are the three that are going first round. Outside of that, remains to be seen. There's been some years where I've seen others go first round.

I was like, really? I thought day two. And then other times where I thought clear day one, and they won day two. So you never know with how people see wide receivers. receivers. I'm telling you, man, Denzel Boston. In terms of a, what? Sorry?

I was just I'm telling you, Denzel Boston. He's my number three. Oh. In terms of other storylines, well, once Aaron Glenn was caught sleeping at the combine. Oh, my God, yeah. And people were, and there were some people that were like,

he's obviously checking his notes. Like, his eyes are, literally sleeping on the job. like I'm sorry a reaction like that like the way his head pops up he was sleeping yeah yeah he was sleeping like that was what I was going to say like the way you're just like kind of like jerked awake like whoa like that like yeah that's uh he was sleeping so Jets fans I mean I know this upcoming season is already a foregone conclusion but like find a new hobby this is not this is not a good sign Yeah, not a good sign at all. The other story that, one of the other stories coming out was Texas A&M wide receiver, KC. Concepcion, has a speech impediment.

And for some reason, everyone decided they wanted to make fun of speech impediments. That's, that's great, guys. That's, who's making fun of it? Like, people online? Wait, point. Another point to the fucking internet, man. God damn. Like is it just like it's the people online, right?

Yeah. Not like coaches, right? I would hope coaches don't do that. I don't think so. I don't think coaches would be that disrespectful. No. Yeah, I highly doubt it. But like, I just, I don't get it.

Like everyone that's like, ha ha, Casey Concepcion is a speech impediment. They're so funny. It's like, yeah, would you, my question of those people online is, would you say it to his face? Because I have a suspicion he can probably kick your ass. more uh more evidence of the internet of uh how the internet the internet the internet is not real and then uh he ended up posting a response a basically a response to it afterwards on social media um i'm not going to read the whole thing because you can you can guess what he's saying um all right anything else from the combine that we want to talk about no no no

cool time for some motherfucking immaculate grid you kidding me you kidding me we're so back we're so back we are so back

and it's got a ravens for the uh listeners uh falcons stealers falcons ravens falcons vikings bill's stealers bills ravens bills vikings and a stealer a raven and a viking that have recorded an intercept individually, of course.

All right. Where do we want to start? Hmm. All right. You are a Ravens fan, so. All right. If we do Ravens Falcons, we can go Devin Hester here.

Oh, Devon Hester. Nice. Ah, you always forget. 5%. Nice. If we do Ravens' bills, you can either do Willis McGahey or Lee Evans.

I'll let you take your pick. Let's go Lee Evans. Mm-hmm. That one hurts, but go on. Well, Willis McGehy is more of the, is more known. And recording interception. Who's the most random Raven you can think of that as recording an interception? That play with the Ravens, Jim Leonard, off the top of my head right now.

Wow. No, he's not here. We're not like James. No, not James. Jimmy Leonard? All right, give me a different one, that. David Carr. Oh, the former Cowboys Corner, right?

Are you thinking Brandon Car? Not Brandon. There was a David Car for us. But, yeah, Brandon Car works. Branding car works. This one, I'm assuming. Yep. I hopes.

0.3%. Nice. Good job, Tuck. Tuck, who's the most who's the most random stealer you could think of that's got an interception? Lamar Woodley? Hold on.

Is he, did he have an interception? I don't know. What about Jason? What was his last name? Like Wurilds or something? Worlds. James Harrison. Him.

Did he? Yes. 0.03. Holy shit. Wow. Insane. And a Viking. The Viking are recorded an interception.

What about old man Terrence Newman? Did he have any when he played for the Vikings? Maybe I spelled his name wrong. Just try Newman. There we go. 1%. We're getting after it, boys.

I'm going to after it. Bill's Vikings. No, I'm not. Percy Harvin? Wait, did he play that though? Yes. But is that obvious or I'm just worried? Let's try.

Not obvious enough. Apparently not. Four percent. I don't take it. Steelers, Falcons. Well, Falcons Vikings, probably the most obvious is Kirk. No, we can't do that.

No. No, no, we can't do that. Wait, did Cadarol Hodge ever play from Minnesota? No. Another one off the top of my head is Cordarrel Patterson.

That's another one. I'm typing in Cordarreal Patterson at the moment until we think of it. Oh yeah, he did play for the Falcons and the Vikings. I mean, we could even pick them for the Steelers here.

That actually works. For Steelers' bills, you could go Emmanuel Sanders, I just realized. Yeah. But how obvious is that? Not obvious enough. If it was Bronco Steelers. 13, son of them.

I'll go Cordarreal Patterson for the Steelers, Falcons. How about that? Yeah. If I can figure out how to spell his name, shit. Too obvious. All right.

One yes left for Falcons, Vikings. Did Michael Pruitt play for Atlanta? I don't know. I feel like could Darrell Hodge play for both? I don't know.

No, no, no. Oh, my God. Okay, gentlemen, outside of Kirk Cousins, who are we thinking? I'm trying here. Yeah. I was thinking Randy, but he didn't play for the Falcons. Oh, no. 100% to not.

Um. No, no, no. John, no. Um, any corners that criss-cross. No. I think, you know what? I am feeling pretty confident, though. Because I remember this is just some more madden knowledge.

Do you guys remember the tight end Michael Pruitt? Yeah. He had a very weird spelled name. It was M-Y-C-O-L-E. It was spelled Michael. I remember because I always found that weird. I'm pretty sure P-W-E- was both of them. It would be an insane poll, but once again, it's that madden knowledge.

I mean, let's just send it. It's our last pick. CJ's had quite the madden polls from last episode, so let's go for it. And he does it again. 0.1% in the fucking ass. 44 rarity. Nice. We did really good today.

Good job, Tuck. Thanks for helping us with the AFC North, man. No problem. The most popular Viking, most popular falcon stealer is Michael Vick. Obviously. Most popular Falcon Raven was Dion. Bill Raven was Tyrod Taylor.

Court of Interception, Ed Reed, not a big surprise. Mitchell Trubisky, the most obvious Bill Steeler. Troy Paul Mala Interception. Most obvious Falcon, Viking. Chris, Kirk Cousins, Bill Viking with Stefan Diggs and Harrison Smith for recording. Viking that got a check. Yeah. And then, as you can imagine, the biggest accuracy was the recorded interception part.

Everything was at 90%. How about that? How about that? We did good. Once again, years of play Madden has really helped. Wow, Michael Pruitt. Man, I feel like I'm slipping. Don't worry.

We'll get there. I'll get better at this. But how about that that Jason Warald's poll for the Steelers, though? Yeah, pretty good. That was pretty good. All right. That's all the scheduled content that we have for you today. Anything else that you guys think of up top of your head before we end the show?

No, we talk. That's done everything. Free agency is coming soon. Thankfully, or at least the tampering period. Yeah, let's double check the date on that. It's like coming up next week, right?

Free agency starts. Wednesday, March 11th. So, no, it doesn't. Franchise tag deadline is tomorrow or on Tuesday at 4, though.

Hmm. Which, which, by the way, George Pickens got hit with the tag, correct? Yeah. We kind of figured he was going to get tagged anyways. Because there's a mutual wanting of guys that mutual wanting between both sides of staying in Dallas.

I guess the question really is, is how much are you going to pay the guy now? Because never mind tagging them. You're going to tag and sign them. Tying it. Oh, by the way, Chris, the commanders are expected. to release Marshawn Latimore. Ooh. Yeah, it would free up 18.5 mil.

Yeah, I mean, the only reason why I even got them on the team was because they were making a Super Bowl run at the time. And, well, the commanders are kind of having a deep look in the mirror right now of like, all right, what is this team? Yeah, they're only oldest team. Yeah, exactly. So that makes a lot of sense. So that would, where are they in terms of cap space? Oh, yeah, that's right. They have amongst the most money in terms of cap space.

They're already at 67 Mell according to spot track. I saw that. I saw that. That's it. That's what you're kidding me? But, yeah, back to Pickens real quick. I think that's going to be interesting to see how they end up playing that out. because I was hearing that.

So like JSN could be in for a big extension. Same thing with Pooka and Nakua. So along with CD Lamb having the big contract, like it's going to be interesting to see where the Cowboys put their money in terms of where they, where you value pickings in terms as of a. where he is in the league. Has Alec Pierce gotten the tag yet, by the way? Not to my knowledge.

I didn't think so. So that's probably going to happen tomorrow. I feel like we're going to see some more people get tagged. Because the Colts have a decision to make with their tag. Alex Pierce, their right tackle, Braden Smith, who's probably as good as gone if he hits the open market. There are some rumors about Daniel Jones, but once again, you know where I stand on him.

Like, not even just as a player just coming off that, uh, killies tear. Yeah. All right. Now, any, any, anything else? No. All right. That's all that schedule content that we have for you today.

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