The Fumblerooski Podcast - Throwback -Ep 434 The Fumblerooski Podcast

Episode Date: March 19, 2026

On today’s episode, some house-cleaning from over the weekend: Titans rebrand new logo, uniforms, and colors. Players getting released, and some Monday moves. Along with this, a dive into the Seahawks offseason thus far and the key players they have lost in the last week. Chris Costich, Justin Tucker, and CJ Medeiros talk all this and more!

On today's episode of the Fumble Ruski podcast, go over a couple signings, the Tennessee Titans with a big rebrand, an awesome rebrand to say the least. We're going to talk about the Seahawks, them losing a lot of key players from their Super Bowl team. A couple other moves that happened over the weekend as well, including today, Justin Fields getting traded to the Kansas City Chiefs. This is a Fulmleroski podcast. 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 Fulmleruski podcast by Power 88 Dean Radio in Secret Weapon Consulting. We got Tuck. We got C.J. We got myself, Chris. How's you guys weekend? Not bad.

I can't complain. Decent weekend. a lot better than the week, but not bad. Fair enough. Yeah, my weekend was great. I can't complain, you know, just hanging, hanging with the boys, with the fellows. It was a good time. I like it.

Yeah, on Saturday morning, I had to go down to Yale to do a baseball game. Same thing with Sunday, but that's staying in Connecticut. But Saturday morning, wild morning for your boy. 4 a.m., the smoke alarms are. screaming going up. No fire. There was no fire smoke in my house. Don't worry. Just one of those things, right?

And that went on for a good five minutes. Thankfully, I was able to go back to sleep, but that was one of those like, you got to be fucking kidding me. Wake up at 8 a.m. My shoulder is just something's

wrong with it. Like, I am feeling an immense amount of pain. Woke up. Musta. just slept on it the wrong way. Go to put on a shirt to start the morning. Snap my chain. Oh. Oh.

Rough. Terrible start to the morning. It's all right. The rest of the weekend went all right. But now I got to figure out new chain because I'm going bareless on the chest right now. It's a little not feeling naked. I feel naked. Interesting.

Yeah. All right. Let's get into this past weekend, including some stuff from today. Do you guys want to start from what we missed on Thursday since oddly enough, we talked about this pre-show, but for some reason we just didn't talk about it.

Yeah, sure. We can blame me for this one, but the Titans rebrand. New logo, new colors, new uniforms. Love it. Love all of it.

Unfortunately, don't have a picture of the logo. in the system right now to flash it just so we can have it up. But what do you guys' thoughts? I think that it's freaking awesome. The logo itself is sick. The colors are great. I like how it's going back to the Houston oil.

The whole thing is essentially Houston Oilers. And I think just the 90s colors in general, like 90s color. like 90s colorways. You could look at any sport and it's freaking sick. And this is a color scheme that I think that Titans should have never went away from to begin with. Obviously, they, you know, back in the day when they went from Oilers to Titans, they wanted to differentiate themselves, of course, from Houston. But this was the right move. This was the right move by all means.

Yeah, I agree. I agree with that. The uniforms look amazing, especially when you see the picture of them and then the promotional video of them were cam war and more in the unit. I thought it was solid. I thought it was good.

It came out of nowhere for me because all of a sudden late at night, I saw it. I was like, where did this come from and why am I now just hearing about this? These unis are so sick. The logo looks good. The unies looked good.

I'm not sure if this will help them play better on the field. But all these, these units are appealing to me. They look very good. And I hope they look good. I hope they make them play better this year. And so icy. They're just so icy and so good. Now, we got to figure out where they rank as far as uniforms are concerned.

But, oh, no. Hmm. Maybe. Are we about a slide, slide an extra segment into the show to, day ranking uniform. No, man, during like the dead zone after the draft

for like the off season, that's something we got to do. That logo rankings. Like, yeah, there's a lot we haven't done that we should do. Let's do that.

We can do that. We don't have to do it now. That's just something on. Thursday. I'm telling you, after the dead zone of the off season, I get content out somewhere or another. Maybe we could put it on Instagram,

get a few followers. We don't know. All right. Fair enough. Fair enough. I like it. I like it. That's a great idea.

That's a great idea, CJ. Yeah. Well, look at look at us. We're good. CJ's cooking ideas. I don't like it. Uh, CJ, your thoughts on the uni? And rebrand? I actually love hate relationship with this because I love the unies. I do.

I love the oilers colors. I love the word art. I love just the way they look. I'm just not crazy about the logo. It's a little genericy for my taste. Hot take, I really love the other Titans logo, the one will just run away from the fire, the Ford look at the T, a little shadow on it.

I thought it was cool. I really liked it. The new one, you know, I think it's fine. It does the job. It's a logo. But I just don't think it had that flare and pizzazz that the old one did. And the uniforms, though, I love. They had to go back to those Oilers colors.

There's different. Like I said, uniforms, great logos. Yeah, honestly, I could get with that in terms of the logo. Like, it would have been cool to see, like, the modern logo with the oilish colors. Yeah, I would have been hip with that. I would have. Yeah. But the problem is, it's like the T in the center doesn't have that shading. You know, that made it look like the sword.

It's all about the shading. You've got to do that. And, you know, it's such an underappreciated aspect of logos. because a lot of them are kind of flat, which that makes sense, given that a saw whole videos to why logos have gotten more simplistic, basically, so that they can look better, smaller, which I get that. But a lot of them do. For example, the Kansas City Chiefs, there's a slight shadow behind, you know, the K and the C. That's what makes it pop. Even the Los Angeles Rams.

We, you know, we're not crazy about that logo, but they do have shadows. They do have a gradient to it. And that's nice. Heck, our team, the Patriots, there's no immediate. shadows, but you can tell it's all about line angles. Like you'll get the nose and have the lines a little thicker. That's what we call implied shadow. It makes it stick out more. Vikings, same thing. On some of like the facial lines, you see they vary in thickness to imply shadow. That's what we want. That's all. It's just without those implied lines, without those gradients. Like I said, you don't even have to like change the color just if you alternate between line thicknesses. You can give the illusion of shadow. or it makes the logo pop a little more. That's all. Keep mine.

I know nothing about art. That was just off the dome. I mean, you can't just be a nonsense for all I know. I mean, this was kind of turned into a marketing class, marketing 101 with C.J. Medeiros as your professor.

Nice. Anything else we wanted to touch on from this? They better play better. I hope it makes him play better. Yeah. Yeah. Obviously. I mean, some of the moves they've made, I hope so.

Because you can't get new uniforms and go like four and 13 here now. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I remember that. But like, that was a good rebrand still too.

Or yeah. Yeah. It was a reber. I mean, yeah. I mean, that doesn't matter. Yeah. I mean, Jacksonville did it as well, but, you know, they weren't. But that, that was actually needed because remember they had those two-tone helmets.

God, that was. Yeah. Yeah, they went back to... I remember those days. Yeah, I'm glad they brought it back to 2010. But now let's bring it back to 1999. The alternates that they got, the throwback alternates, let's just make those the permanent ones.

Just make those the permanent ones. That's all you need to do next. It's going to. And it annoys us every time this gets brought up. The retro ones, we want them to be permanence, and they won't be permanent. Yeah. And a lot of teams, like their reps are.

I was to say, like, a lot of teams, like, their retro logos were better, you know, like, obviously I'm biased. I'm a Pat's fan, but New England. That was insane, you know. Philly also, you know, they were, that was a great logo. You know, Denver, you know, with the guy on the, on the Bronco, that was cool. The Jacksonville Jaguars, like the full body there, the Cincinnati Bengals, you know. We have options, is all I'm saying.

even oh the Rams too when they were in St. Louis that was a cool logo like I'm just saying yeah maybe maybe we could do that on Thursday as well do a do teams that need a rebrand or we can do it right now no no no we got to get to more stuff next time I'm telling you we got to save this for after the draft for that dead zone that's I swear to you we only come up with the good ideas where we're actually recording sometimes. I know, I know. We don't know whose fault that is. Oh, that's okay.

Yeah, weird stuff. Speaking on the Titans, they released Legerius Sneed over the weekend, saving $11.4 million. In terms of LaGerius Sneed, I just thought him getting the contract that he got when he did

was a little ridiculous. I, and everyone was just like, oh, he's the best corner in the league, because he locked up Tyree Kill and it's like okay great he locked him up in zero degree weather like and nobody could fuck like nobody wants to run in that it's pretty easy to stop fast players when they're in

sub freezing weather I just never really saw the hype in Ligeria Sneed so the contract they got I thought was ridiculous in itself and this just goes to show I was right I guess thoughts from you guys

I understood why he got the contract because he went on like this good run of being all the quality teams in the AFC the Miami, the bills, the ratings and then won the Super Bowl against the 49ers so I understood why it happened

I wouldn't have paid him myself but I understood why it happened now could he still come back to Kansas City and be a quality cornerback? Of course he could because he understands the system and he's been a part of it, and that's what got him paid in the first place.

But I'm not sure if he'll be, like, cornerback one or anything like that, but he's still talented enough to play in this league. I don't think he'll go, like, I'm not sure he's done just yet. Oh, man, I just, I think I was another one that didn't really get the contract. Like, I understood why, and I understand the inflation that skill position markets cause, but Tennessee just never seemed like a place where he would fit, you know? He just never really, he was never really a scheme fit. He didn't really gel.

Also, as soon as he left Kansas City, he got piled driven by injuries. I mean, he only played in and started five games in his first season as a Titan. That was in 2024. In 2025, seven. he played in a whopping seven games for the Titans. So all told, he played in and started 12 games for the Tennessee Titans across two seasons, where he had a combined 49 tackles, once again, across two seasons, three passes broken up, didn't force or recover any fumbles,

and did not intercept a single pass. And if you look at the advanced defense, he allowed a, 58.2% completion percentage as well, which is just not ideal. I mean, yards isn't, yeah, that's not going to tell the whole story because he wasn't always on the field, but he did give up four touchdowns across like 12 games, across two seasons. So I just, it didn't really fit from the start, and I don't know where he goes now. I mean, go out on the Titans for saving over 11 million, but that was just one of those contracts that probably shouldn't have assigned to begin with.

And again, that's why they have a new GM. Facts. Yeah. See, I mean, see if he goes back to KC, especially with no more Trent McDuffie. Of course, Chiefs traded, Legerius Sneed after tagging him, and then proceeded to get a four-year, $76.4 million deal with $51 million total guaranteed money. only lasted two seasons. Anything else we want to touch on from Ligarius need? Nope.

No. All right. Let's go over one more thing from this past weekend. CJ Gardner Johnson getting a one-year deal with the Buffalo Bills. It definitely helps out the secondary. And when CJ was on the Bears, he was definitely productive. I want to see where he fits and whether or not. that he'll stick to the Bills because he was supposed to be with the Texans and then

he left and then once the ratings, then he left and then went to the Bears. So it'll be interesting to see if he sticks on to the Bills team. They need the secondary help and I think he provides them something that they're sorely lacking. And hopefully this helps them to get one step closer to where they want to be. I think it's a solid pickup for a one-year rental, which is basically what this is and we'll see what happens from there yeah the problem with c j garner johnson's never been his play on the field it's been his attitude his biggest weakness has always been his personality which some

people find him funny some people find it endearing but coaches apparently find it to be neither and understandably so he's like if george pickens played defense you know like he he just crashes out constantly. And I think this is a bit, even though he's on one-year deal, dealing with a guy like him is going to be a bit of a tall task for a new head coach Joe Brady. So I have a question. Do you think, all right, so basically, when is the big C.J. Gardner Johnson losing his temper moment, crash out type thing going to happen before or after week nine?

Before, because I think, John. Josh Allen will throw a pick that doesn't make any sense, and he'll just be like, what are you doing? And I think we can all agree. We can all respect Gardner Johnson's game, but it's a matter of when, not if he loses his temper. Yeah, it's probably going to be like some random, like, week six game and the bills are, like, end up losing said game as well on some ridiculous shit.

Yeah. I can see that. Like how they randomly lost it. like the Falcons or the Jets last season? Or the dolphins, I mean. Yeah, I'm in Miami. Yeah, I mean, defensive help, but we'll see how it goes. All right, we're going to take a quick break when we come back.

We're going to get into the meat and potatoes of our show, which regards a couple moves that were made on Monday, including Dallas Gart, signing a one-year deal in Justin Feele. trade to the Chiefs and a deep dive on Seahawks losing a lot of key players from their Super Bowl squad. This is a Fulmaruski 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. So Dallas Goddert gets a one-year deal. to come back to the Philadelphia Eagles, which was announced on Monday morning. When this deal initially came out, I think it was Drake May's King tweeted out immediately.

A.J. Brown's going to the Patriots, and I was like, wait, what the fuck did I miss? So that was a nice little jump scare to start the morning. which we could get a little bit more into AJ Brown if we want because there was some more news but it was obviously just more of the same bullshit from over the weekend but you know if you're Philly this is great to bring back Dallas Goddard he's been a mainstay for Philly for last however many years been as reliable as a of a tight end as you can get And yeah, that's my take.

As far as Dallas got it is concerned, I think he's like a security blanket for Jalen Hertz. And for Jalen Hertz, you need a guy like Dale's God at the tight end spot. And so I think it's a win-win for all of them. He gets a new contract, even though it's only for a rental. They didn't franchise tag him. And Jailen Hertz gets to give his guy for another year. Long term, however, they need to figure out a way to like,

get Jalen Hertz weapons. It's already bad enough he can't consistently keep an OC. Sometimes it's not even his fault. But at the same time, they need to figure out a way to make sure this offense stays consistent throughout the whole season. Because if they go the same way they went last year, AJ Brown's going to crash out eventually. I see it happening. He's already reading books on the sideline just to keep his composure. The last thing he needs is to go through another season like this. So I think they need to figure out a way to get him weapons whether through the draft or somewhere else. But, oh, no, this is a good signing for both of them,

but it doesn't move me outside of, like, oh, Jalen Hertz keeps his guy. So other than that, either they make a trade or they go through the drafts, it might be a struggle for Philadelphia and get Jailen Hurts surrounded with pieces. He does have Devonte Smith. He does have A.J. Brown, but it's like... Like, it's a struggle right now for the Eagles, and they need to figure it out. I don't, I don't know. Like, tuck, this isn't like a needle mover for me.

I think it's good that they were able to keep their guy. But does this keep your championship window open? Because I did see a lot of Eagles fans saying that they would, they wouldn't mind moving on from him. And this is a one-year rental. So I'll keep my thoughts brief. I think what they do in the draft is going to be very indicative of his future. If they use their first or second round pick on a tight end,

then I think this will truly be just like a one-year rental. And the only reason they did anything, you could argue at least that the only reason they signed him back was because if he was allowed to hit the open market, then it would have incurred like a pretty nasty dead cat pit yeah i mean he is 31 he's about to be 32 um so he is on the wrong side of 30 so it makes sense that you're going to go on a rental on this guy um and you know this last season uh this last season ended up being in terms of i guess receiving it It was the most catches that he's ever had in his career.

It wasn't the most receiving yards, but it also was the most receiving touchdowns that he's ever had with 11. Six catches, 591 yards and 11 touchdowns. He's obviously a huge goal-in threat, especially when they're not giving the ball to AJ Brown. But, you know, I think there's still something to say about him being able to still put up some solid numbers at 31 years old. Can you do it again at 32?

We'll see. But, I mean, as you guys mentioned in terms of, you know, how the rest of the off season is gone for Philly, going to need a little bit more than just retaining Dallas Goddard, which, you know, you lose Jalen Phillips, lost Nekobie Dean, lost Reed Blankenship. Now, in terms of the guys that he did sign, Braden Man, or I don't know why I said Braden Manney's a fucking punter, but Terrick Woolen's a good guy to have, got him on a one-year deal

but you still need more, especially for who you lost. And now you accompany that with, of course, the drama with A.J. Brown and all the news stories that came up this past weekend, yeah, you're going to need

to do a little bit more. Now, Howie Roseman is your GM, so he's going to figure it the fuck out. But yeah of course the news not news from over the weekend in terms of a j brown was that the rams and the pats were seemingly like they were going to be all in seemingly like there was about to be a deal made with one of the two teams over the weekend and then nothing happens of course and sounds like that if anything's going to happen it's going to be after the after june 1st

which the Eagles cap hit on AJ Brown significantly lowers. It doesn't mean that they're going to cut them. That's not really what they're going to try to do or release them. They're definitely not going to try to do that because it's still a solid cap hit that they would have to eat. But, you know, it's something, I guess. Something to keep a potential eye on. could you imagine AJ Brown with the Patriots? No.

Could you imagine AJ Brown on the fucking Rams? Like if the Rams were able to swing that, like they're essentially going to have, they would have had to like send over Devante Adams. Yeah. I just, I don't know. Like I can't see it.

I just can't see him getting traded. Trade rumors have been haunting him for years. And now it's just like, all right. Either it's going to happen or it doesn't. I'm so done with this. Yeah. Yeah.

Another news that happened Monday, Justin Fields traded to the Kansas City Chiefs. This coming after the prodigal son of the New York Jets, Gino Smith returns to the team. I mean, the writing was on the wall for Justin Fields for basically since the start of last season.

or really since before the start of last season, that this was just going to be a one-year thing. And there's no hope for Justin Fields. And lo and behold, there was no hope for Justin Fields. Now he goes Kansas City, which honestly, for Justin Fields, probably the best thing that could have happened. He gets to work with Andy Reed.

He gets to work behind Patrick Mahomes. And maybe be competent, maybe be a competent quarterback that isn't so reliant. line on his legs. This is an interesting pickup because when he was with the Jets, you would see flashes here, there, how good he could be, but the Jets were so incompetent. You really couldn't see it.

Like for an example, he played good against the Patriots, but then he played like ass against the Broncos. And so you never knew what you were getting from Justin Fields, and it was a problem, which is why eventually Tyra Taylor took his spot. But all in all, I think this could be a great opportunity for him, specifically because Patrick Mahomes is injured and he's not 100%. I'm not sure if he can go opening day, but if he can't, I think Justin Fields has more than enough time to display his talents on the field for that one game

and to see what he really has. Now, if he plays really well and they absolutely beat their opponent, I think he might actually get himself a chance to be a starter somewhere else because let's face it, he's not going to be the long-term starter head quarterback for Kansas City. But I don't know, maybe another place where they need another quarterback in order to help one of their younger guys develop. I can see Justin Fields doing that. But it all depends on how well he plays in Kansas City. I don't think he has any excuses to play bad because he has Andy Reed. he has Patrick Mahomes to help him at the quarterback spot when he's injured.

He has Rashid Rice. He has Travis Kelsey, who miraculously came back for one final season. And Eric the enemy is, O.C. Mm-hmm. Eric Mianemies back at O.C. So they have things surrounding him that can make him perform better. But all in all, this all comes down to whether or not Justin Fields will rise to the occasion and perform better than any.

think he's performed before. I think he can, but that remains to be seen. I just, I don't know, man. I mean, I know we want to paint Kansas City as the place where, oh, this is where you can get a career back on track. Andy Reed is the quarterback whisperer, but like, is he, though? Like, is he actually? Because, I mean, outside of, like, Chad Henney's subbing in for a few plays.

What have backup quarterbacks in Kansas City really shown? Because Gardner Minchu, he might as says, Gardner Minchu we're talking about, just looked lost when he played. He looked like a deer in headlights. Same thing with Chris Alatikun as well. And granted you could argue that's Chris Alatikun, but that doesn't explain why Gardner Minchew looked so bad.

And Fields, how he played for the Jets, how he's played his whole career. everybody loves to zero in on like the 2% of plays he makes like that one deep ball or that one 50-yard touchdown run where he evades the entire defense. We have to realize that the other 98% of that is just bad. I really think this could be his last chance. If he, you know, starts for Kansas City and they struggle, then I think then it might be over. Then I don't even know if he's there as a backup or if he's anywhere as a backup. because even if he leaves the chiefs to a winning record,

this is where we really got to put our thinking caps on here and say, okay, let's just say Mahomes misses the first four weeks, right, with an injury. And say the chiefs are three and one and two and two. It would be incumbent upon us to deep dive into those games and say, all right, did the chiefs win with fields or did they win because of him?

And if that does happen, I got a sneak and suspicion, it's going to be win with. I don't know. I see your point. I'm not sure. I can trust Justin Fields right now. I'm not sure he can be the one because of him right now.

But again, we didn't think that way about Sam Donald. I didn't think Seattle could win with Sam Donald that quarterback based upon how he played in Minnesota when he came into the clutch. But he proved me wrong. He's just a world champion. Justin Fields has more, has amazing potential. central when he actually puts it all together. Like, it's not often, but when he puts it all together, you can see why he was taking

number 10 overall by Chicago. But I think it might be a struggle for him. I think he'll play two games this year, obviously, but I don't know. I'd have to see Justin Fields, like, during preseason, just to get an idea of how good he'll look under. Andy Reed. Because if he looks good in preseason and then he has a game or two where he performs well,

I think he will get another chance in this league. But the inconsistencies kill me. I also think this is most likely maybe his last chance. And like, look, when you look at the situation that the chiefs have and Mahom is rehabbing is ACL and LCL tear from December.

You know, the expectation is that Mahomes is going to be starting week one, but obviously there's, you never really know. And so throughout this summer, Justin Fields is going to be the one that's going to be operating the offense. He's currently listed as QB2 on the depth chart. So he's going to be the one that's going to be operating the offense until Mahomes gets back throughout the summer,

throughout training camp. So, yeah, he's going to get some, He's going to get some preseason reps. He's going to get a lot of them. So we'll see how that ends up going. In terms of the trade in general, Chief sent over a 2007, sixth round pick in terms of the contract to facilitate the trade straight from ESPN article

from Nate Taylor and Rich Comini. To facilitate the trade, the Jets are paying $7 million of field is $10 million guaranteed salary for 2006. Kansas City will pay the remaining 3 million, which is much like what the Jets are doing right now with Gino Smith. The Jets will pay, because the Jets are currently paying

Gino 3.3 million and the Raiders paying 16.2. So yeah. Anything else we want to touch on from this? No, I agree. How well do you think Gino will do on the Jets since this is his return? Yeah, I don't think we even really touched on last week either.

probably better. He's going to be able to push the ball down the field, actually. Pass game is probably going to be better. But, like, I mean, Gino's going from one really dysfunctional situation to another. And we saw how he did in that dysfunctional situation. Fair enough. CJ, you got anything out of that?

Yeah, it's basically what you said. I don't have a lot of confidence, honestly. Yeah. All right. Let's move to the Seahawks. They've had quite an interesting offseason. Mainly for the guys that they've lost. Now, I will say they re-signed Rashid Shaheed to a $51 million three-year deal.

But it's really the defensive side of the football, obviously offensive, that they took a massive hit. Kenneth Walker got signed to the Chiefs. That was probably one of the biggest. probably the one of probably top three biggest signings from free agency. Ended up signing him to a $14.35 million deal. Massive steal for the Chiefs. Defensively, Mafia Boye, Kobe Bryant, and Tariq Willen,

the three major losses that they had, especially for a Seahawks team that going into this offseason were top five in Cap Space. and they've only been able to re-sign. And, you know, that was the big story with this team. You know, a Super Bowl winning team, they had some free agents, but there were a lot of guys, but because of the Calf's base, it was, uh,

it was enough where they were going to be able to retain a lot of these guys or should have been able to retain a lot of these guys. Well, here we are on March 16th, a good week. after free agency has started and they've already lost massive pieces to their Super Bowl winning team. Including the Super Bowl MVP.

Yep. So where do you... And CJ kind of brought this up right before the show too. And when you look at the Seahawks, I mean, seeing who they lost, it's hard to say that they're going to go back to back next year because of it.

Now they do, now obviously, Mike McDonald's a really good coach, but a coach is sometimes only as good as the guys that are on the field and who you can retain and who you can keep. And, you know, being repeat Super Bowl champs or going back to back is hard enough in itself. You're making it harder on yourself by not retaining guys when you absolutely can. Like, you're, like, you're trying, like, are you trying to really tell me that you could, like, you couldn't retain Mafeboe for 20 mil for three years? like Kenneth Walker, like we kind of touched on it last week in terms of, you know, he was probably sick of sharing the workload with, uh, uh, what's his face?

Jack Sharbonne. But like Kobe Bryant could have signed him for 13.3 a year. Tarik Wulin, he went for 12 mil on a one year deal. It, I don't get it. I just don't get it. And looking at where they are in terms of, uh, cap space right now if I can actually get myself to the right page. They're still sitting seventh at 44 Mel.

Thoughts from you guys. Seattle, Seattle, Seattle. What are you up to? When looking at who's leaving and what they're signing for, it could be they just said, we do not believe you are worth this contract. we're not going to match it. You can leave.

We're going to give you this amount, and we're not going to any higher. It could be something like that, or they could just think they can just go through the draft and get players to replace the ones that just left. I'm not sure how many fix they have this year, but it has to be around seven. So I think they can find pieces to, like, plug and play.

I'm not sure. they have four yeah they only have four picks ooh oh yeah and each of their

picks essentially are like the last pick of each round rounds one through three and round six pick 188 sounds like they didn't get any compensatory picks either no

that's rough that is it probably won't next year yeah But geez Louise, this is going to be tough for them. I still think they'll be in the playoffs because they still have the nucleus around them to do it. But man, if this keeps up and they don't sign any players in their own right or trade for some players, this can go horrible in a hurry.

So I don't. Hopefully they're able to find pieces that mesh well with what they're trying to do. Hopefully they find themselves a running back in a pass rusher. because those are quality positions that you need quality players at. But all in all, it's a bit strange that they didn't resign the people I thought they were going to resign, but they still have the chance to make the playoffs of what they have. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

I'm definitely not going to say here and say that they're not going to make the playoffs. I think that's utterly ridiculous. It's still a very good team. but, you know, with what they've lost and what your, at least 2026 looks like in terms of the draft, like, yeah, obviously, you know, I mentioned where they are in terms of cap space, where they are in terms of the rest of the league. And, you know, obviously I'm saying that you could have easily retained these guys. You probably aren't going to be able to retain all those guys for the contracts that they ended up going for, right?

and tuck you make a great point that um you make a good point that maybe they didn't see them as being valued or should have been valued that much perfect sense if they even resign or don't resign one of those guys we're having a much different conversation than we are right now yeah geez it it's rough i wouldn't say it's rough because they just got over winning a super So I'm not sure if they're preparing for like a Super Bowl hangover or something of that type. But what do they mean? It's kind of late in the game for them to be hunting like free agents to help fill spots. I'm not sure that it'll work.

So they're going to have that going to have to go through the draft. But they don't even have good draft positions. And they only have four draft picks. So they're going to have to make each and every single one of them count, which could be be a struggle. But all and all, not bad, but I don't know

what direction they're trying to go in. This kind of throws me for a loop. Yeah. No, it does. It does. CJ got. What do you got? Talk to me.

I just hate all these snotty Seahawks fans on Instagram saying, we're not going to miss them. No, no. Oh, you just need to learn ball. We're saving our money so that we can extend JSN and Witherspoon. And to the OCOX fans, I say, sounds to me like you're trying to convince yourself of that more than you're convincing me. You know, I think they're trying to say that to sue themselves more than they're trying to answer any of my doubts.

You lost a lot of talent. And some of you try to explain it away as, oh, well, you know, know, when you win the Super Bowl, your free agents get really more expensive. But the problem is, going into this free agency, you were top 10 in Cap Space, and you are still. You didn't really make any needle-moving sightings. Like, yeah, you know, you've got Josh Job and Rashid Shaheed back, but you lost Super Bowl MVP, Kenneth Walker. You lost one of your top ed rushers in Boye-Moffe. You lost your corner two in Tariq Bowen, and you lost your starting safeties in Kobe Bryant. And unless you draft four pro bowlers off the rip, I'm not going to be super confident in, you know, your development, you know.

And even now, also, you know, losing their OC, that's going to hurt as well. Of course, but we knew that. So next season, I think we're about to find out what this team is really made of. somebody, I think it might have been Bill Belichick said something to the effect of getting there, I'm paraphrasing like, oh, getting there's only, like getting there's nice, but like, can you stay there? And we're about to find that out. Yeah. Because here's the thing, though, if you just do the basic math, they could have re-signed all those guys and still had money for JSN and Witherspoon.

Any argument to the contrary is like factually incorrect. Yeah. And John Schneider being the GM of the Seahawks for the last 15, 16 years as well. I mean, if there's going to be anyone to rebuild a team into a Super Bowl team, it's probably him, considering he's done it three times since he became the GM. But all the credit to him, of course, for getting those building teams to get there. So I think if you're a Seahawks fan, I think. you have good faith in what could potentially come. Anything else we want to touch on?

No. Outside of where we see the Seahawks potentially finishing with what we've seen so far. Talk your muted. Sorry, five or 60 right now because I think the Rams right now look like the best team in the NFC with the addition of Trent McDuffie. So they'd have to be a wild card team. But I still think they're a playoff team. Yeah, like, I don't know if I could see them winning 14 games again

Because winning 14 games in its own right is extremely hard to do You can see them being like a hair below it at like 12 maybe Yeah, yeah All right C.J, it looks like we want to say something No, I'm good All right Let's run some immaculate grid

Immaculate Grid Oh, we're still back We're so back. For the listeners that cannot see the screen, Steelers, Bengals, Steelers Titans, Steelers, Jags, Dolphins, Bengals, Dolphins, Titans, dolphins, jaguars, and a Bengal Titan and Jaguar receiver that caught for a thousand plus receiving yards in a season, in a season.

All right. Where do we want to start? Should we knock? down the right column here get this John out of the so for the Steelers you know obviously we got a few options well Bengals you mean

no yeah for the Bengals yeah we once again we have a few options Jamar Chase Chad Johnson there's another one whose name is escaping me AJ Green of course yeah but they're obvious so like

who else did Chris Collinsworth ever go for a thousand yards on the Bengals? I would assume he did. He was really good in the 80s. I was also thinking like T.J. Hushmanzada. Hmm. Well, that's the thing is how where could you go?

Like, I don't really know of any other receivers that they had that went for a thousand. Did Muhammad Sunu ever by chance if AJ Green was hurt, Marvin Jones? I mean, right now, my go-to would be Chris Collinsworth, just because I don't. Tyler Boy. Less obvious.

Did he, though? Boy potentially, because he was essentially wide receiver won a couple of years. Yeah, but the Bengals passing attack was really, like, especially when he was really hitting his stride. It wasn't really that good. I think he did it in 2018, but. Yeah. Tyler Boyd did it. Yeah.

Should we hit Tyler Boyd? You know what? Why not? 4%. Nice. Oh my God. We get a use. No, we get enough.

I was about to succeed. I wonder or T.J. Hushman's eye would have ended up. Titans, Jags. This might be a little bit tougher. Did Alan Robinson ever do it with the Jags or Alan Hurons? Yes. Alan Robinson did it with the Jags. Alan Hurons did it with the Jags as a matter of fact.

Now, which is the more niche one? Hearns or Robinson? What about, you guys remember Jimmy Smith? Yes, I remember Jimmy Smith. I mean, he's super underrated. Did he ever go for a thousand with the Jags? Yeah, that's what I think so. Like, that's the thing, though.

He's super underrated, but I don't know. Or two has another one. He and McArdle? Yeah, yeah. He was there. I think he played alongside Jimmy Smith. They were a pretty good duo. Did he get a thousand?

I don't know, Chris. I would go Jimmy Smith just off. I don't know. He would have been 90-year-old would be more niche. But did he even hit that number, though? Yeah, he did in 2015. Are you sure? Yeah, because him and,

uh, him and what's his face both went off for like a thousand yards separately in one year. And that was the only good year that they had. Oh, yeah. No, no, you're right about hernes. I remember him in 2015.

You're right. All right. I'm hitting hernes. Oh, six percent. Oh, we'll take it. I'll take it.

Yeah. Uh, Titans. Cool. You can go, DeAndre Hopkins here. Yeah. But did he do it with Titans?

Yes. Yep. You go Hopkins. I'm trying to think of guys that were during the Steve McNair years. There's one. The animation is too well known, so that's not going to work. Yeah.

Yeah. I was about to say, I wonder if Frank Whitechek ever got a thousand, but he definitely didn't. this would be a great question for uh um for our friend from Tennessee oh yeah William Bishop yeah he would probably run through this whole middle section of Titans yeah be all over that shit um should I go D-hop yeah why not 13% Less than I thought. All right.

Yeah. All right. Where do we want to attack now? Let me think. I'm trying to think of Jags, Dolphins, Julian Thomas. Oh, I like that. Who could forget?

Or Julius Thomas, you mean? Yeah. Do I just not know how to spell Julius? Yeah, I guess I don't. 2%. Nice. Nice. Good poll.

for Bengals Steelers you remember that backup quarterback Bruce Grankowski yes yes I do 3% nice I guess I didn't realize he played for the Steelers I knew he played for the Bengals yeah he was a backup for a bit oh Alan Robinson for Steelers Steelers Jack Wars yes there we go oh yeah he fell off though after we look I was I was also just going to say Jill and Ramsey just to say them as well.

16%. Oh, wow. That's a little high. For Steelers Titans, you remember that wide receiver, Nate Washington? Yes, I do. He's one. I can never forget about Nation Washington.

He was a staple on my fantasy team. Yeah. 7%. Dang, I thought it would be, well. And he's in a Patriots jersey. Hell yeah. Come on now. Everyone forgets that. He just didn't make the team. Yeah.

All right. now we need a dolphin and a bangle and a dolphin and a titan a dolphin and a bangle did ray malaluga ever play for the dolphins i'm pretty sure you i know you left cincinnati but i don't know where he went i couldn't tell you i was going to say dolphins uh titans malik willis but he just got to the dolphin yeah so that wouldn't count because he hasn't played a snap yet i mean I mean, it's too easy for Dolphins Bangle, but Ryan Fitzpatrick.

That's one. Somaget P. Ryan, I think, as well for Dolphins Titans. Oh, no, for Dolphins Bengals, either or. Did he play for the dolphins? P. Ryan, yeah. Oh, yeah. Let's go P. Ryan, because I think I would assume that most people are probably going to go the route. of Ryan Fitzpatrick.

That would be correct, 2%. There we go. Well, there's Ryan, Santa Hill, and Dolphins, Titans. Yeah, that might be too obvious. Yeah. I don't know, man. Cameron Wake was another one. Yeah.

John Hsu Smith is another. Yeah, I think John is a team. They did as well. Who? Jerome Baker at lineback. Baker. They trade a lot of good point. Baker may be too obvious.

What is it? Johnny Smith definitely is too honest. Which is the year that you just have with Miami. Yeah. Oh, you're right, you're right. They used to have a tight end, Anthony Fassano. Madden legend, if you know.

Let's go over there. 1%. Goodness gracious. We're here, man. 6.4 was the average score. What was ours? 55 rarity score.

Alan Robinson and kind of fucked us. And D. Hopper. Yeah, that was a good, good job, fellas. Yeah. Look at this. Only wasn't a lot to choose from in terms of a thousand yard receiving seasons, to say the least.

Only eight for the Jaguar, 16 for the Titans, 11 for the Bengals. And yeah, it's a damn good thing. We didn't go Ryan Fitzpatrick. He was 46%. He didn't go Ryan Tijuana Hill either. Yeah, 64%. Giannisian Ramsey went 35%, 50% for Jags Dolphins, Jack Steelers.

Mason Rudolph for Steelers, Titans, James Harrison for Bengal Steelers, which a little surprising. I feel like a lot of people forget that. James Harrison played for the Bengals, but. Yeah. AJ Brown, most obvious Titan, a thousand yard receiver. Brian Thomas was the most obvious thousand yard receiver for the Jaguars. And no big surprise, Jamar Chase was the most obvious bangle to receive a thousand yards. Wow.

I think this might be the first time I've actually seen people get in the 50s in terms of accuracy for this. bangles Steelers 53% which makes sense I feel like I feel like not a lot of teams at least AFC Northwise end up staying within the division when they leave their primary team

outside of like Joe Flacco but Joe Flacco is a little bit different he just does it for the love of the fucking game man true true shit true shit Brett's us how about that

Anthony Fasano 1% right smack in the fucking middle Julius Thomas 2% Smuderdt He rind 2%. Got some good pulls here

But again Alan Robinson was too high up And so was DeAndre Javios Yeah Yeah unfortunate But what are you going to do All right

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