40s and Free Agents: Post-Combine Free Agency and Draft Buzz: What Positions are Deepest?

16:13Daniel Jeremiah:Yeah, Gainwell, I'm curious to see what goes on with him. Good player.

16:17Gregg Rosenthal:I think he'll do well.

16:17Daniel Jeremiah:I think he'll do well.

16:18Gregg Rosenthal:Everyone needs a Kenny Gainwell. Well, you mentioned offensive line. Let's just go right there because you said it's such a drop-off at tackle. I think of the same thing in free agency. There's three guys that – or four guys now, if you want to include Jawan Taylor, who just got cut by the Chiefs, but he's not a great player. Jermaine Illuminor, Rasheed Walker, Braden Smith are the three names you hear Whereas guys, at least you can sign. They're going to start for you. They have strengths and weaknesses. They're not going to make the Pro Bowl, but they're okay. Juwan Taylor, I think, is going to get a contract to play.

16:51Gregg Rosenthal:After that, it's rough. There aren't many tackles out there in free agency, and it sounds similar in the draft.

16:57Daniel Jeremiah:Seven guys. There's seven. So when you look at it, I think there's a real chance all seven of them end up going in the first round. because if you need one, you've got to take one. I've got the Arizona State tackle. Ian Achor is in the early 30s for me, but I think he could go in the 20s just because if you don't get on that ride early, the ride's over. So there's seven guys to go along with a big-time interior player in Ioane from Penn State. So that's eight offensive linemen. Then there's a couple other intriguing guards, but I think maybe those guys go early in the second round, mid-second round but those tackles i just think there's there's enough need around the league and it's such a decline and drop off after the after those guys i think they get pushed up

17:45Gregg Rosenthal:yeah and like there there are some guys a little deeper at tackle that maybe you can sign and you can figure it out but it's just it just strikes me we had brandon bean on on the show you know he would like he wasn't too big time enough for us like you know a guy who joined us as well yeah who's run a team that's, you know, made the playoffs year after year after year. Like he wasn't big time, but you were too big time. And I asked him about possibly losing his interior offensive lineman. And his answer to me without directly saying it, I think was telling, which was, hey, look, those were two guys we got pretty cheap in free agency.

18:22Gregg Rosenthal:Like one of them was a sixth offensive lineman. One was a little later in free agency. And that spoke to me of like, that's a position where we think coaching and development, and that's going to be what you can maximize. And it just hits me every year, and they just lost their offensive line coach, who was a great one. Those guys are under – that's who's underpaid, is the great offensive line coach and having the right offensive system to develop these positions. That's such a huge advantage for NFL teams, because then you can take a David Edwards or a Conor McGovern, and three years later you spit them out, and they're going to make$15,$20 million in free agency, but you can find the next ones.

19:01Gregg Rosenthal:If you have a good internal system, it's just such a value add.

19:04Daniel Jeremiah:I would just add though, that increasingly it's become difficult for quality tackles to get to the free agent market. And I think you can find a lot of reclamation project guards. You can even find some tackles who failed to guard and you can get some real, real value with those guys. It's hard. It's hard to, you know, getting the, getting a big time discount on a quality tackle. Like that just, it's hard to find those guys. You have to pay the premium. That's why I think those, you know, and I don't think free agency even really has him this year. So that's how it impacts a draft is, boom, those guys are going to go.

19:35Gregg Rosenthal:Yeah, it's a good call. Like Jermaine Illuminor, to me, I'll be really fascinated.

19:39Daniel Jeremiah:There's like, I saw a lot of nice things about him. And a couple of the teams that I talked to, and we brought up the names, and it was like a hard no. Like, no.

19:48Gregg Rosenthal:That's what I was going to say was he's a guy in the past who's just kicked around. Like, he's bounced around the league. But he has good – he started a lot for teams that have successfully protected the passer. And so maybe he's not going to be for everyone. But what I mean is, like, he's a guy who's been in free agency before and not getting paid much money. And I think this time you'll see, just because of the lack of the market, he'll get it. But you're right. At guard, there's a lot of guys, the two bills I mentioned. We'll see if Joel Batonio retires or not. But you have other guys who have played for the Browns at various points.

20:18Gregg Rosenthal:Wyatt Teller, Kevin Zeitler, the Texans. You know, they just traded Titus Howard. How about the Texans? Can we pause there?

20:25Daniel Jeremiah:Yes, sure. I'm curious to see how the Texans are going to build this thing out. Like they joined the ring. Like when we look at the teams that need to overhaul the offensive line, right? Okay. The Raiders, the jets, the Browns. And then all of a sudden it's like, Oh my gosh, the Texans, like the Texans are a super bowl caliber team that have to rework some things along their offensive line right now.

20:46Gregg Rosenthal:Nick Casario cracks me up because he got annoyed by a question where the premise was your offensive line essentially wasn't great last year. You know, what are you going to do to fix it? And he was like, are you watching the same tape that I don't, I guess I got to watch that tape. Cause the tape I watched, I thought they were much improved essentially. And I know what he was getting at. I thought last year.

21:08Daniel Jeremiah:Like nursery got better as the year went on.

21:10Gregg Rosenthal:And Ingram played well for them. And I thought Titus Howard was okay. I thought last year they, they did kind of what we asked. Can you just have a normal offensive line? And for much of the season, they were probably in the 16 to 24 range or something. They weren't, they weren't the worst group in the league anymore. But for a second straight offseason, they just waved goodbye to their best player. But so long, Laramie Tunsil last year. So long, Titus Howard this year. And Ingram, maybe they're gearing up to give him a big contract.

21:36Daniel Jeremiah:I'm going to tell you right now, I will be shocked if when we reconvene after free agency, if they haven't gone top of the market shopping along the interior.

21:47Gregg Rosenthal:And it might be a trade. And OK, so some of the top of the market, I mentioned a couple of them. But Isaac Sayamalu, there are numbers. Like you said, it's easier to find. Cade Mays is a center for the Panthers, who I think is going to get a bigger contract than people expected. Sean Ryan's played for the Packers. Zeitler. So there are guys out there.

22:04Daniel Jeremiah:I think those Bills guys make sense there too.

22:08Gregg Rosenthal:I think they make a lot of sense. Let's do the rest of offense before we take a break. Wide receiver is very top-heavy. Not a lot of depth. And this is where it seems to me, in most years, actually, I think free agents have more good wide receivers available. And you have Romeo Dobbs and Wanda Robinson, who I think teams will give solid contracts to guys who will play. Mike Evans, we'll see what he gets. The Rashid Shahid market is quiet out there. I have no idea what he's going to get. But I do wonder, it seems like this draft class is just deeper. It's actually a position where you can find guys to play right away versus the free agency where the money doesn't quite add up.

22:48Daniel Jeremiah:Yeah, and I think because we're going to see the offensive lineman dominate the first round like who's going to get punished because of that you know edge rushers deep but i still need the edge rushers go i i think the the benefactor is going to be teams wanting wide receivers in the second round i think in second third round day two here's a there is a plethora of quality wideouts all different shapes and sizes skill sets it's like discount shopping so i think you know the fact that we don't necessarily have a deep group and free agency that they can get that problem solved. And to go back to the Texans real quick, I almost wonder if they take the approach with the interior offensive line, potentially that they took with receiver last year, doubled up on those Iowa State receivers in the second round or the second day.

23:36Daniel Jeremiah:Maybe they use that same approach with a pretty good interior offensive line group.

23:40Gregg Rosenthal:Ooh, but just do the double up on the Bills. We threw out that idea for the Raiders, but they should just import the Bills offensive line. they need both of those spots and like they have all the cap space in the world. I like that. Cause it's also a position where like, who would you rather have a second or third round pick, even just to play week one, or let's say Jahan Dotson or Marquise Brown or Kurt. Like it's a reasonable discussion. There's some guys in the middle, Juwan Jennings, you know, could end up in Tennessee with his old coach or, you know, there'll be guys who signed decent contracts, but it's not great.

24:14Gregg Rosenthal:Tight ends pretty awesome though. Remember when tight ends were supposed to take forever to develop, at the NFL level. I am curious to ask you that. Like they've, they've had quick impacts lately. And I don't know how you think that could impact, you know, Kenya and Sadiq or the rest of this class. Cause it's a, it's a really good free agent class at tight end. I think maybe the strongest position pound for pound.

24:34Daniel Jeremiah:Well, we had one of the best tight end groups we've ever had last year. And it was, you know, we, we talked about it in the run up to the draft. There's nobody in this draft that approaches the top two guys. Even the class before though,

24:45Gregg Rosenthal:those guys came in and they played right away,

24:47Daniel Jeremiah:Laporta and you know they made a difference yeah I think the the higher end of the that class is the last two classes is better than this class so there's Sadiq who's kind of a interesting guy because he's a little bit undersized but super dynamic he'll go in the first round and then after that I think you maybe you could see a pause in the second round and maybe we start seeing more third fourth fifth round guys so I don't think the impact we'll see will match what we saw with Loveland and Warren and my guy from Bowling Green to the Browns last year, Harold Fannin, who was a really, really good player.

25:19Daniel Jeremiah:So I don't see that immediate impact of this group. But in terms of your point, like the ability for these guys to get on the field, I mean, yeah, I mean, a lot of these NFL teams are flexing them out. They're doing a lot of the same stuff that they did in college.

25:33Gregg Rosenthal:And way more two tight end, even three tight end sets. And so that's one of the reasons why I think you're going to see money flying at tight end. I don't think they're going to be monster contracts, but just teams picking these guys. Who are the other top guys? I know Goddard. Pitts is gone now. But after that, you have Isaiah Likely. You have K-Dot, who I think is a good player. You have Goddard, you mentioned. You have Chigo Conquo. Travis Kelsey does look like he's going to come back to the Chiefs, which kind of crosses off the Chiefs as probably a big-time tight end team. Charlie Kohler is a guy I was surprised to hear.

26:08Gregg Rosenthal:I think teams do like him as like a second blocking tight end. It's tough to find those guys. And then like there's even depth. Like Njoko, I haven't mentioned yet, is a good player. Darren Waller looked shockingly good when he came back last year. I think he'll have a place. Some Sean McVaytree is going to sign Tyler Higbee to be their tight end too and like be really happy with it. And so these are guys that are all going to play varying levels of contract. But most of those first guys, like Okonko, Aten, those guys are going to be playing 40, 50 steps a game and getting good contracts in free agency.

26:40Daniel Jeremiah:Yeah, that's a good group. Yeah, it is kind of interesting how it kind of leans draft or free agency with most of these positions. So I'll lean towards free agency with that one.

26:48Gregg Rosenthal:All right, that's the offense. Let's take a break. We'll come back and we'll talk defense.

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30:47Gregg Rosenthal:Back on 40s and Free Agents. Unlike Rich Eisen, DJ doesn't get that flight right as the show begins. He got out, man. You didn't even get home until Monday evening, and here you are back grinding Tuesday morning. What is a DJ post-combine? Do you do anything to celebrate? What goes on?

31:11Daniel Jeremiah:Not yet. We'll do a couple days of shows here, And then I got to work through Wednesday, Thursday. Yeah, Friday will be my – that'll be my – maybe go hit a golf ball on Friday or something. Get outside, see the sun a little bit. I've been indoors, so I got to get out.

31:26Gregg Rosenthal:We got a little World Baseball Classic coming up. Oh, is that starting? That starts Friday.

31:32Daniel Jeremiah:Yeah, man. I'll probably be watching a lot of that. I love – side note, people are like, the DR team, everybody's super excited about it. It's like, Tatis, Machado, Juan Soto. I'm like, how did that team, how did that Padre team not make the playoffs in 2023? I still don't get that.

31:48Gregg Rosenthal:Yes. You were the only one that's still wondering about that. I guess you and the rest of the Padres.

31:53Daniel Jeremiah:Oh, yeah. Blake Snell won the Cy Young that year. Still didn't make the playoffs. Make that make sense.

31:57Gregg Rosenthal:Let's talk Edge. So you mentioned deep class. And it's maybe the deepest class in free agency, too. Whereas it actually almost looks like maybe it mirrors it in terms of the draft, where you have the top shelf guys, Hendrickson and Mafé and Jalen Phillips and Adafi Owe. Okay, we got some high-priced guys, but then you got the mercenaries like Bosa, Mack, Hassan Reddick, Cam Jordan, a lot of those types of guys. And you have some good up-and-comers like Joseph Asai kind of in the middle of his, you know, I heard Arnold Abichetti might get a pretty good contract, AJ Epinesa, Caleb Onchason. Like, you got different flavors, and then you can just pick out, like, eight more solid veterans that at least can play for you.

32:39Gregg Rosenthal:So I do think it's a position where people aren't going to be crossing off edge, but they're going to be at least feeling like we don't have to take them in the draft because we can get some in free agency.

32:49Daniel Jeremiah:I'm curious to see where the like the middle tier market is, because I think the the the Seahawks and the Eagles, we've talked about it a bunch. It's just the number of guys. So instead of saying I want one twenty five million dollar player, maybe I'm going to go try and get two$11 million players, $12 million players. So I think people will be really excited about that group that you mentioned, kind of that middle-tier group of guys.

33:17Gregg Rosenthal:Right, but then they end up not being that big of a bargain. But yeah, some names even I didn't say, Kingsley and Igbari, I think will get an okay contract. And then you have the older guys, like Al-Kahid Muhammad or Kyle Van Noy, who, yeah, it's probably a one-year contract, but they put up good production. Give you some snaps. good snaps last year and uh like in the draft did did this group kind of play to type when when you

33:41Daniel Jeremiah:saw him on the field like yeah it was good i mean the top guys were the top guys i mean obviously ruben ruben bain's arm length was a big discussion but i mean everybody knew he had shorter arms coming into it so i mean it's not like it was this shocking revelation that he had short arms same with cassius howell i think howell maybe gets punished a little more he could slide you know Maybe he slides out of the first round at A &M, but there's a lot of depth there. It's a really solid group.

34:06Gregg Rosenthal:I thought when the Titans traded for Jermaine Johnson and people were like, well, then they don't have to necessarily draft an edge at the top of the draft. I'm thinking Jermaine Johnson can't be impacting your number four overall pick. In fact, they could sign someone else in free agency. Maybe it's not the top of the market, but it's one of those guys we mentioned as a solid starter type of player. And even then, that shouldn't affect, to me, what you do at number four overall.

34:37Daniel Jeremiah:I mean, what's we're talking about? Saul is a defensive guy. He's seen when his Jets defense was really good, they had a lot of depth up front on that group. He's seen inside the division with Seattle and with the Rams, and he saw what happened when his depth was depleted last year with injuries. So they want waves of guys. That's a nice middle tier guy. They're going to continue to keep going at it and keep going at it.

35:03Gregg Rosenthal:Exactly. When you have it, when you have a pick that high, you, you want to get the potential of a guy that, that one day is getting that huge contract, not free agency, but from your own team. And these are more middle tier type of guy, defensive tackle. It's it, there's not many. And it, it seems like, you know, I did, I remember I watched, I watched like every second of the defensive tackle. I really, you know, you guys did a good job, you know, kicking that off. It's not a flashy class, but it feels like in free agency, there's just like guys like Jonathan Franklin Myers is an interesting guy who will get paid good money.

35:38Gregg Rosenthal:And after that, you're just looking at kind of guys who can fill gaps. I don't think a lot of defensive tackles in free agency that, that teams are excited about. It seems like it's probably pick your flavor in the draft.

35:49Daniel Jeremiah:Like, yeah, but I liked the day too. I mean, like banks is the one that everybody's kind of buzzing about because he's, 6 '6 and changed 327 pounds. He ran well, but he only played a couple games this year. His tape is a roller coaster ride. He goes to the senior bowl. There's the flashes, but then he disappears. That's the profile of a boom bust second round pick. There's people talking about him going up there in the top 15. I can't get there on that one. I just can't. There's too many other solid players with higher floors. To me, this D-tackle group lacks the star power. I think there are guys, there's a handful, five or six of them, that are day two picks that I think will be good players, but there's nobody in there that I think is a top 15, even a top 20 player in this draft.

36:39Gregg Rosenthal:And yeah, there's the equivalent of kind of a day two free agency pick. Like there's a lot of DJ Reed or Calais Campbell, Onyemada, Draymond Jones, Sheldon Rankins. What this group lacks though is what you were talking about, kind of the second tier of guys who are coming off their first contract. There's almost none of that. I thought it was telling. Go ahead.

36:59Daniel Jeremiah:I was going to say real quick, you know who we should give some credit with looking at this group, free agency in the draft. Let's give the much maligned Dallas Cowboys some credit. There is nobody in free agency of the draft that comes anywhere close to the talent that Quentin Williams possesses. They were able to bring in last year. Now they've got other things they need to fill in. And I know the Micah Parsons, that's a tough one to replace. But I think that if you look at, and I'm just going to give you the little Cowboys positivity here, which is not popular. But if we've talked about this and the waves of pass rushers and you think about the last two Super Bowl teams didn't have anybody with double digit sacks.

37:36Daniel Jeremiah:Like they found one of the hardest pieces to find, which is the defensive tackle. Now, can they build not a Micah Parsons level player, but they can they build up the waves of players to be able to roll through there? And who's their defensive coordinator? Parker, where'd he come from? Came from the Eagles where they appreciate the importance of that depth.

37:55Gregg Rosenthal:Yeah. And I think they could be an interesting team on Jalen Phillips, who I haven't heard a lot about, but you hear Jerry Jones. They do this every year saying like, oh, we're going to spend this year. This is the year we're going to spend.

38:08Daniel Jeremiah:That one makes a lot of sense for impact familiarity. You plug him, you know, this is plug him in. And you got proof of concept of how he plays there. He played great with the Eagles.

38:18Gregg Rosenthal:And they have Osa DeGizua in the middle. They have Kenny Clark still, although I'm not sure.

38:24Daniel Jeremiah:That might be the – that's the one. If you're going to tell me the free agent pairing that makes the most sense. You take – you rob a division rival. You already have his coach, so you know he fits the scheme. They know him really well. He's a young ascending player. They have room. They have money. I needed the position. Like that just makes way too much sense, Greg.

38:42Gregg Rosenthal:I like it. Let's go to linebacker where suddenly off-ball linebackers are back. Not only did I think the position, there was some improvement, including like Devin Lloyd's at the top of my list, but I think this is a nice group in free agency, and it really seems like it's a great group in the draft, which I don't know if that's not going to help each other because I think this is kind of the equivalent to running back or tight end where at least in free agency on the defensive side, I would say it's probably the deepest position along with Edge.

39:15Daniel Jeremiah:Yeah, I would say this group has helped themselves the most from when the season ended to now. You saw senior bowl performances that elevated guys. You saw combine where they ran extremely fast, but not even just that. The field workouts were excellent. They caught the ball as well as any linebacker group that I can remember. I think it's a loaded group. Obviously, Styles is going to go all the way up there in the top 10. And however you use Arvel Reese, I think, on the edge. Some people would leave him off the ball. But those are two premier, premier guys. And then there's a whole host of guys, I think, your second round, third round, like really, really solid players.

39:49Gregg Rosenthal:Yeah. I don't think that's going to help like Devin Lloyd. Who's he's another guy you, you mentioned, who did you get the most reaction for on at quarterback? It was Malik Willis. Devin Lloyd was kind of that guy for me at linebacker where not everyone liked him as much as I did. You, you mentioned too on the, on the show, but between him, N 'Kobe Dean, Caden Ellis is a good veteran who's going to get some money. Leo Chanel is an interesting guy. Quay Walker, there's opinions all over the place. And then a ton of just veteran players, Demario Davis and Alex Anzalone, I think will do okay. Quincy Williams is out there.

40:26Gregg Rosenthal:Alex Singleton, Eric Wilson. Like there's just players in depth there where you can, you can kind of fill holes.

40:32Daniel Jeremiah:Of all those guys, the name that I heard the most was Leo Chanel, just because he's a unique player and skillset. He's a name that came up and that was definitely, I think he's going to do well in free agency.

40:42Gregg Rosenthal:I wonder about him because he played for Steve Spagnuolo and on a per snap basis, he made a massive impact. It was always interesting though, at the end of the year, you know, I'd be looking at the list and be like, huh, he only played 450 snaps. You know, they, they never played a more than he had a very specific role. They never trusted him to be on the field. So I don't know as a personnel guy, like how you, how you evaluate that and how a guy like that gets, gets paid versus maybe a more standard, like three down guy. Or maybe. Yeah.

41:10Daniel Jeremiah:I mean, it's just personnel packages. And when you've got Bolton out there. So yeah, you know, you can throw an extra DB out there and then you're limited, but he's a good player and there's love for him. I know that.

41:22Gregg Rosenthal:I think the cornerback class in free agency is typical. It's average. There's plenty of guys who are going to get$10 million contracts in free agency. There's not a lot of super duper stars, but everyone has different like flavors of the, of the types of guys that they like. I think Cordell Flott is going to sneaky get him out a good amount of money. Yeah, his name's been popular. Yeah, Alante Taylor will too. I have no clue about Reek Wollin. I'm not totally sure about Jalen Watson and the Chiefs, what kind of money he gets. And then there's plenty of other names like Monteric Brown, I think will do okay from the Jaguars.

41:58Gregg Rosenthal:But there's a lot of good, not great cornerbacks available. I don't know how that matches up with the depth of the draft.

42:03Daniel Jeremiah:Yeah, it's good. It's a good group. Again, I'm excited maybe more so about the second tier than the top tier. and it was interesting. I had a talk with a team that's desperately in the corner market, outside and inside. And they told me, they're like, look, we're prioritizing the nickel over our outside corner. We feel like in our defense and really a lot of the defenses we've been discussing this, right, having impact guys in that position and that role. So they were like, man, if we're going to take one, if we're going to take a couple of them in the draft, we might choose to take the nickel first and then turn around and take the outside corner in a later round.

42:40Daniel Jeremiah:But that's interesting to me. And it's a really good group of guys that can play inside of the nickel. And it's some bigger guys you can find, too. A guy like Kilgore from South Carolina has really, really helped himself. And teams, they're going to value that type of player, that profile.

42:55Gregg Rosenthal:Well, when I think about free agency and thinking about that, the name that stands out to me there is Elante Taylor, a guy who I've always been intrigued by. When he's at his best, I think has been a really good player. Otherwise, we're looking at mostly outside guys. Flats played a little bit on the inside, but yeah, not a lot of guys with that sort of versatility. There is versatility at safety, though. Like, it's an awesome group. You have 10 to 12, like, real deal starters slash plus starters, but I think the amount of them works against them. This happens a lot at safety where a lot of teams, I think, will wait it out and try to find that next cam curl contract.

43:36Gregg Rosenthal:His last contract was two for$9 million, and he's a free agent again specifically too. But there will be deals like that for safeties that wind up playing 2 ,000 snaps over the next two years, and you only have to pay him$4 million a year, and they're going to be pretty good for you. There's good names out there.

43:53Daniel Jeremiah:Yeah, I would say there's five guys I love in the safety class, including three that I have first-round grades on, and then two more that I would take on day two, and then it goes pretty deep. to 10, 11, 12 guys that I think have a chance to get on the field next year. So it's a – the two positions I think that have elevated themselves in the draft side of things since the end of the season until now that have ended up being better than we initially thought, at least I initially thought, most people initially thought, is linebacker and safety. Those guys have really kind of jumped and emerged in the process.

44:26Daniel Jeremiah:The athletes.

44:26Gregg Rosenthal:What's the deal with all the athletes playing safety now?

44:30Daniel Jeremiah:Yeah, well, it's hard. Yeah, they were faster than the corners, the way they were rolling out there. And we have some of those guys in that safety group that are going to be the big nickels that I was talking about. So, yeah, those two positions exceeded expectations.

44:43Gregg Rosenthal:And there are guys available. So I'm really curious what the Seahawks are going to do in their secondary in general. I don't expect Rick Willen to be back, but they have Kobe Bryant at safety who is very good for them. They have Josh Jobe at cornerback who is good for them. But then I have Brian Cook is just a blast to watch play football. I think Nick Cross of the Colts is an underrated player that I think will do okay in free agency. I mentioned curl before, and then there's guys like Reed Blankenship. Jalen Thompson is a good player for the Cardinals. Yeah. Jaquan Brisker is a big risk because of the concussions.

45:15Gregg Rosenthal:But if you want a guy who hits, like look no further. Jalen Hawkins played well. Aloy Gilman. Like there's, there's just guys at safety where I think that I'm going to be updating a different safety signing every day next week. While I'm working hard, you're out watching baseball. We're cranking out shows every day here for NFL daily moving forward. We're live all week next week. This is, this is my time of year. I don't know. You know, I know you're not a listener, but we call it the Gregular season. Oh, is that what we call it? Yeah. The Gregular season.

45:44Daniel Jeremiah:What do you think? Yeah. Well, don't love it, but workshop it, keep workshopping it. By the way, you know, you hear like all these different rumors while you're at the combine. I was just, give me some good ones. Well, I was just thinking about it while you were talking and we were talking about the Seahawks and there was a rumor of like, They could be a Max Crosby team. That would shock me.

46:04Gregg Rosenthal:Have you heard that? Did you hear that? No. They have so much cap space. It's a little under the radar. If you look at the teams, the eight teams with the most cap space, it's many of the worst teams in the NFL, and then it's the Chargers and the Seahawks. You're like, huh, that's interesting.

46:23Daniel Jeremiah:A lot of their own guys. I think Job would be a priority for Seattle, try and get him done. uh, amongst all those guys.

46:32Gregg Rosenthal:And Crosby would be fascinating to just say like, Hey, this is our team right now. We can do it. Let's take advantage of this window. I don't have a rookie quarterback contract, but they have a quarterback contract. They feel good about that. They're not going too

46:45Daniel Jeremiah:crazy for, but I mean, you'd have, that would be good. I already got the Marcus Lawrence. Um, gosh, I mean, they've got Chenna Wosu and Wosu on the other side. Like all of a sudden you got Max Crosby with all those DTs. Holy moly. Okay.

46:58Gregg Rosenthal:So you mentioned Crosby. That's great. I have a proposal for you.

47:02Daniel Jeremiah:Yes, sir.

47:02Gregg Rosenthal:I know you're big on the draft and all this stuff. For three weeks every year, you be NFL insider, Daniel Jeremiah, you know, we've got potential changes here at NFL Network. He's been all this stuff. The more you can do, those guys get top money. I mean, you see the suits that Pellicero wears and everything. And Ian, you have so much information that I know that you get. You could, you could act, and they're different. They're getting all their stuff. There's a lot of agent talk from them, self-serving talk. You're getting it straight from, straight from the sources. Sometimes you could be NFL insider, Daniel Jeremiah, just for like three weeks, blow them out of the water and tell your agent that and get a big contract.

47:48Daniel Jeremiah:No, I just like talking to you about it on the side so that when it happens two weeks later, Greg's respect for me just grows just a little tiny bit. It annoys me.

47:59Gregg Rosenthal:DJ has all this good stuff. I can't say anything about it. You're not saying anything about it. It's ridiculous.

48:05Daniel Jeremiah:Well, some of it's going to happen soon.

48:08Gregg Rosenthal:We're not supposed to say anything, but yeah, the Patriots are going to get A.J. Brown, Max Crosby, and All right. Next week, we're going to be off and running in free agency. And DJ, thank you. That was great stuff every year on the combine. Appreciate it. I love watching you and Rich do it year after year. And we'll see you next week.

48:33Daniel Jeremiah:Appreciate you, buddy.

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