Free Agency Matchmaker!

11:11Jourdan Rodrigue:There are other options out there, but speaking of chatter at the combine, I feel like the most consistent chatter, unfortunately, was like, oh yeah the Vikings they're done with JJ McCarthy like I don't know about done it seems like

11:23Patrick Claybon:contradictory uh messages before and now the quest he's got either way uh with the fourth pick uh I would like to go not based on reporting but purely on vibes uh the Denver Broncos and Travis ETN a lovely relationship where Sean Payton gets another talented runner who is great in the screen passing game it seems too good to be true uh but they've got the the money and the opportunity so why not make it happen?

11:49Jourdan Rodrigue:I would love that. I mostly want moves that will make it more fun for me to watch football. And I feel like them getting a great 1A to kind of go with R.J. Harvey as a 1B would be perfect. I love that. All right, Pauline, you're up.

12:05Colleen Wolfe:I love Malik Willis to Miami. Ah, I had that one too. Miami, because obviously the Packers connection. With my free agent fits, I love to find some type of connection between a past team and a present team. And with Jeff Halfley there, this is like it just makes sense. He was obviously the Packers DC. And so he spent two years with Willis there. And you have John Eric Sullivan, who was also the VP of player personnel with the Packers. So now he's the GM. It just kind of makes sense that they know him. They know what he can do. They saw him develop. They know what else he needs to work on. And that feels like a good fit there.

12:49Gregg Rosenthal:I like it. I well, you sort of scooped me on that one. I I really like that one a lot. I had that one. I have another quarterback one for my pick. Jimmy Garoppolo to the Arizona Cardinals. Mike LaFleur, the new head coach of the Arizona Cardinals, was actually the one when he has been the playing caller this year or in the last couple of years. Jimmy G has been the quarterback. A couple of really solid games. Michael Fleur absolutely loves Jimmy Garoppolo. I could see this happening. And as a little bonus pick as well, which, you know, it's kind of crazy.

13:25Jourdan Rodrigue:Can't throw in another player.

13:26Gregg Rosenthal:But it's a hinge. It's like they're attached to if this happens, if this happens, then this will happen.

13:31Jourdan Rodrigue:That's two picks. Okay, I'll wait. I'll wait. I'll wait.

13:34Gregg Rosenthal:But, you know, since we were so clear on the rules to begin with. I mean, obviously you can't take two picks at once in a draft.

13:41Jourdan Rodrigue:Oh, the only thing I was confused with was, yeah, taking this out.

13:45Colleen Wolfe:You know what, guys? This really feels like a family. It does. It's really resembling my family. Here we go. The vibes are getting better again.

13:51Jourdan Rodrigue:Once again, you guys have left me just great value here. Wandel Robinson to the Titans. The only thing I'm worried about with this one is it feels like one of those free agency connections that's spoken about so much ahead of free agency that like, does it actually happen in the end? But usually they do. If you kind of look back at the free agency window opening and then there's like four signings right away, there's always like two or three every year that are just like, oh yeah, that's exactly what everyone's been saying for a while. I feel like Zach Allen to the Broncos back in the day was one of those.

14:29Jourdan Rodrigue:I think Wandale back with his coach, Brian Dable, just filling a big time need They need three receivers. People are like, oh, do you really want to spend 15, 20 million dollars on Wanda? Yeah. You need like three different receivers probably there. I know they have some young guys that they like, but this fills one hole that they're probably not going to use the number four overall pick on. Yeah. I think it makes sense. Love it. Get quality around Cam Ward.

14:55Patrick Claybon:Dayball his guys. Speaking of his guys with this next pick, I would like to assign PJ Locke to a new relationship with the Buffalo Bills. We're doing PJ Locke in the second round.

15:04Jourdan Rodrigue:This is outrageous. J-Lock, baby. They all count as one.

15:08Gregg Rosenthal:I'm trying to win. We're in one uni round. He's Brad Holmes. He doesn't care what round. This is the right pick.

15:15Patrick Claybon:Yeah, a lot of changeover, obviously, defensively for the Buffalo Bills. You get Jim Leonard coming over. You get a player he's very familiar with. Bada bing, bada boom, match made.

15:24Gregg Rosenthal:I love this. All right.

15:26Jourdan Rodrigue:This would be the smart way to actually, I shouldn't actually, to attack this. I have lost some offseason games. Just look through the lower level guys of the coach connections. Because for some reason, I was just like, well, we got to talk about the top guys. But that's got to be harder maybe. More of a market. All right, you're up, Colleen. Okay.

15:46Colleen Wolfe:My pick is going to go to the Chargers, who have a huge need now at center after Bradley Bozeman retired. And you know who's going to go there? It is a former Raven. Well, I guess to be. Tyler Linderbaum. I like him going there. Chargers GM Joe Horowitz was with the Ravens when they drafted him. So he obviously has that familiarity there. And, yeah, so he's going to – the Chargers are going to finally get some help on their offensive line. I feel like that is always the issue for them forever.

16:19Gregg Rosenthal:The interior just they can't – it's not for lack of trying. No, that's for sure. They just can't figure it out.

16:25Jourdan Rodrigue:I could see them going for him. I could see the Titans spending a lot of money if Linderbaum's trying to just make the most possible. No. I think Linderbaum's going to go. I said that in a way because I think Linderbaum will go back to Baltimore if I had to guess, but still a great choice. All right.

16:41Gregg Rosenthal:Love it. Okay, mine is for the Denver Broncos. I'm going Kenneth Walker here, particularly because they have been pretty open about wanting and needing to upgrade the way they run the ball. Garrett Bowles talked to us about wanting the team to run the ball better, and that could have been a difference maker for them down the stretch. Ken Walker, I think, is a perfect fit here because of his creativity and his ability in the pass game. Sean Payton loves a running back that he can get his quarterback to throw the ball to, and I think that Ken Walker is a perfect match for a team that is really in a win-now sort of window right now.

17:16What was on my list, partly because of the, yeah,

17:20Jourdan Rodrigue:the Broncos are going to be shopping big maybe at running back, partly because it would be fun to watch, and partly because Patrick already took ETN. I was just like, well, if they're going to go big, it's one of those two guys.

17:31Gregg Rosenthal:Patrick's quietly putting together a stellar draft over here.

17:34Jourdan Rodrigue:He's doing great. I'm going a little more under the radar. I'm going to go David Edwards to the Texans. David Edwards is a guard who's played the last few seasons with the Bills. I think the Texans, by trading Titus Howard and Juice Scruggs, for what it's worth, were signaling, I think they're going to go big on this market. it. Maybe they've been listening to NFL Daily and would try to do the two for Connor McGovern and David Edwards as a combo. Again, that's not allowed to two players at one. So I'm going to go Edwards to the Texans just thinking that they're going to be swimming at the top end of the interior offensive line pool.

18:13Patrick Claybon:They're going to be swimming at the top end of the entire offensive line pool from my perspective. I will skip ahead of my Texans offensive line and maybe come back to it. You can do it. And I'm going to have another reunion now that you guys have called on. AG needs his people in New York. Amik Robertson is there. They have a need at cornerback. Make it happen. Amik Robertson playing for the Jets. Hey, well, this guy's money balling this draft.

18:40Jourdan Rodrigue:I know. I don't like it.

18:41Gregg Rosenthal:I know.

18:43Jourdan Rodrigue:We want it to be like.

18:44Gregg Rosenthal:He's putting on a clinic. He wants it to win. We want it to be. And I'm mad that I didn't do the same thing. And he already has the height tiebreaker too.

18:51Jourdan Rodrigue:No, he's not getting the height tiebreaker. We will come up with an eyebreaker during the break. I mean, he's going to be doing, like, long snappers soon and, like, kickers. You guys talk me out of it.

19:01Gregg Rosenthal:He's digging up who the godfather of someone's child is.

19:03Jourdan Rodrigue:I do like we're peer pressuring him out of what's been an excellent strategy. Colleen, you're up.

19:07Colleen Wolfe:This is genius, Patrick. Stay with it. Don't listen to the noise. Stay on track. Quay Walker, he's going to go to the Titans. Okay. This is something that just feels very Robert Saleh-y, and as he tries to rebuild this team sort of in his own image. And Cedric Gray, like, he was wonderful, but he needs a partner. And it can't just all be him doing everything. That's fun.

19:33Jourdan Rodrigue:It's a team I think is going to spend an incredible amount in free agency. And it wouldn't surprise me if they like free agency is defense and then the draft is more offense. I like it.

19:44Gregg Rosenthal:Okay. My plea to the Panthers is get Dan Morgan his linebacker. I'm going Devin Lloyd. To the Carolina Panthers, I don't think they will be shy at investing in the position. They have been all but extremely open about their desire to upgrade that part of their defense, among other pieces as well. But that's Dan Morgan. He's sort of held himself back a little bit from going after a linebacker to this point because there's been greater needs everywhere else. And I just say, get Dan Morgan, his linebacker, Devin Lloyd, to the Panthers.

20:14Jourdan Rodrigue:I love that. And the Devin Lloyd chatter has been quiet. I don't know if that's worrisome, or sometimes that just means like, boom, it's a team that's keeping their cards close to the vest because I want to see him get paid. And I've had a hard time trying to figure where he fits, and that is a perfect fit. I've got a few that could work for the Cowboys because I think they're going to be spending.

20:35Colleen Wolfe:Wait a second, though.

20:36Jourdan Rodrigue:I mean, I'm just going to pick out one. Okay, there we go.

20:39Colleen Wolfe:Yeah, you can pick one.

20:41Jourdan Rodrigue:I'm going to start with N 'Kobi Dean to the Cowboys. That's your official pick. That's my official pick. Going to the Cowboys, Christian Parker, the defensive coordinator, just had him in Philadelphia. Massive need. They kind of have massive needs everywhere but defensive tackle in Dallas, especially after we hear Azuraku's coming off a hip surgery. So I think they could go big at edge. I think they could go big at linebacker. I think they could go big in the secondary. But I will go N 'Kobe Dean. There is something about the Cowboys. I think they want to stick it to the Eagles. They're not allowing the coach to interview.

21:18Jourdan Rodrigue:that like there's a lot there's a lot going on between those two teams right now. Okay. I'm going to go big name.

21:23Patrick Claybon:Okay. You know, from my perspective, the Washington Commanders and Rashid Shahid. Let's go. Thank you. There you go.

21:32Jourdan Rodrigue:I'm sorry. I'm done. I'm done with my strategy. Greg was feeling the heat. Okay. Honestly, though, that makes sense to me. I love it. I think it like what do you think if we're going to do 10 picks here and we're through round four now, how much will it take to win this competition? probably five four no I think it'd be lower two I'm thinking two or three this is a very difficult game to do it's the regular season yeah we're mostly spitballing it's more just a fun way like good fits yeah Shahid there would be awesome though yeah it'd be fun I'm really curious what they're gonna look like let's actually take a quick break right now we've done four rounds we're gonna come back we got six rounds to go everyone strategize and get ready Okay.

22:15Jourdan Rodrigue:We're going to make up some new rules too.

22:18Gregg Rosenthal:What? No. It's the Gregular season.

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26:39Jourdan Rodrigue:Back on matchmaker. A lot of love connections. Already established. Do we need to bump up the prize?

26:49Colleen Wolfe:So what do you mean?

26:51Jourdan Rodrigue:I just feel like two minutes and 37 seconds. Was that the number of airtime on NFL daily? That's great. The$25 gift card, I think would be great. For entertainment purposes only. Oh, that's true. How about some chicken wings from the place that Jordan.

27:13Gregg Rosenthal:I'm gatekeeping.

27:14Jourdan Rodrigue:Has been gatekeeping. She does not support local business. She says there's some great chicken wings in the local area, but she doesn't want to tell me about it because she wants it to be her place, which is literally anti-small business. And when they have those signs up that they're closed forever, she'll know that in their heart. So maybe this will help open it up.

27:32Gregg Rosenthal:This is an effective attack on her. This place will never need help because they are thriving because their wings are that good.

27:39Jourdan Rodrigue:Right.

27:39Gregg Rosenthal:And it is actually directly supporting local business because they are locally owned and immigrant owned.

27:45Jourdan Rodrigue:So this is purely about gatekeeping Greg. Yes, it is specifically gatekeeping. That could be costing them thousands of dollars in chicken wings that I would be buying every year.

27:55Gregg Rosenthal:I think you are underestimating the amount of chicken wings that I eat every year.

27:57Jourdan Rodrigue:Well, I'm not. You plus me. Sounds like these two are going to have a wing eating contest.

28:03Gregg Rosenthal:Losers of the draft have to have a wing eating contest.

28:06Jourdan Rodrigue:We'll bring in some wings. They're loving this idea for a contest. All right, we're going to pick up the pace slightly. And we're going to get to, we're in round five here of the draft. I hope you guys got a lot of picks. Yeah.

28:18Colleen Wolfe:Oh, yeah. Yes. Tons of picks. Okay. So I felt the pressure. You're up. Here we go. This one goes to the Ravens. And Eric DaCosta, what does he love to do? He loves to sign veteran edge rushers to short-term deals. And that's exactly what he's going to do again when Khalil Mack ends up in Baltimore. Instead of retiring. Not retiring. Uh-uh. He's going to address that need. And then also Jesse Minter. A little reunion. between those two. She's done it again.

28:52Jourdan Rodrigue:Colleen.

28:53Gregg Rosenthal:Patrick was so fired up over there as you were saying it.

28:56Jourdan Rodrigue:I knew she was on, you know, a heater when she went with the Colts defensive line coach right off the bat to start the show. She came to play. She's gutting for that gift card. I am. Jordan, in the wings.

29:10Gregg Rosenthal:I am going cornerback Elante Taylor to the Philadelphia Eagles. A similar system to Vic Fangio's that he will be coming from. You can move him back outside and keep Cooper DeGene still inside full time. Take a little of the heat off that secondary. Dangerous. A perfect, perfect schematic fit for both Joe Casper and Vic Fangio.

29:34Jourdan Rodrigue:Since I had him written down anyways, I might as well just keep the Elante Taylor train going. I'm putting him to the Cowboys. An even better fit because he is better on the inside. Whoa! I think you're losing some of the juice. You know, to me, he's a guy, one of the only guys, there was some crazy stat in NFL history to have like 20 tackles for loss and 50 passes defense in the first four years of his career. A guy who can play behind the line of scrimmage. And so to me, the Cowboys would be a nice fit. Same scheme, essentially.

30:03Gregg Rosenthal:Same division, butting heads.

30:06Jourdan Rodrigue:More wide open. Fifth round heating up.

30:10Patrick Claybon:All right, you're up, Patrick. Okay. Since you guys have gone secondary, I'll take it back closer to the line of scrimmage. Carolina Panthers got some help from Jordan earlier. Let's give them some more help with some young talent. Kingsley and Igbari going to play on the edge outside of two other really good linebackers. Now we've completely fixed the Carolina Panthers.

30:28Gregg Rosenthal:You're welcome, Carolina Panthers.

30:30Jourdan Rodrigue:It does feel like a move that they would make. He fits the body type, and I can just imagine Kingsley and Igbari.

30:38Patrick Claybon:And if you're concerned about the snap count, you're losing snaps to Micah Parsons. It's like, it's okay.

30:42Jourdan Rodrigue:And you just need guys. Like, they need a guy to fill in 650 snaps. Like, good run stopper. It makes sense to me. Okay.

30:50Colleen Wolfe:Well, I'm going to go back to Elante Taylor.

30:53Jourdan Rodrigue:Yes! Whoa!

30:55Colleen Wolfe:Make that money, Tay! A popular man! And I am going to put him on a team where Dennis Allen is because Dennis Allen coached him for three years previously. so he's going to Chicago and also that makes sense because the Bears were rumored to be in trade talks last year for him so we know that there was a precedence there that they wanted him and now there's a connection to.

31:22Jourdan Rodrigue:They're so fascinating. We talked about it on Wednesday and I picked up that little crumb Jordan left out there where they're going to have to say goodbye to some people in their secondary which is a little item I clocked because they got some important people there who we could talk about on the show if we wanted. Jaquan Brisker, Nashawn Wright is there. Kevin Byard is a free agent.

31:41Gregg Rosenthal:Smokescreens. He's throwing out smokescreens trying to deviate me off course.

31:46Jourdan Rodrigue:You're up.

31:47Gregg Rosenthal:Okay, I've got a weird one here. Marcus Mariota to the Indianapolis Colts. If they are not convinced on Riley Leonard, which I do not think they yet are, they'd like to see him play more. The only way to see him play more would have been to have him play more, but he did not do that. And I think that Marcus Mariota is a great A backup and also B, a bridge guy who can win you enough games to stay patient with Daniel Jones's recovery and can do a lot of things that Shane Steichen wants to do in that offense. He's still got the juice, one of the best backups in the league. Great bridge guy. This is what I'm picking.

32:20Jourdan Rodrigue:Speaking of dot connecting, you know, Jordan did a big feature on the Colts last season. I'm putting a little extra into her Colts analysis here. I would have liked Kyler since I already took Kyler to the Vikings. It would be hilarious if Kyler was the caddy for the Colts for like$1 million. Because what I was trying to think, he does not really totally fit in the McVay tree system. I mean, someone else could take that too. They're not going to do that. It's just it's too chaotic. But I was like, he would be a great Shane Steichen quarterback for half a season. That's true. Just take a look. Let's stick at quarterback.

32:56Jourdan Rodrigue:Let's do Malik Willis to Cardinals. I'm worried about like, what is the market going to be for him? Maybe it ends up settling in closer to Justin Fields' contract last year than like a$35,$40 million. Either way, I think he's going to have an opportunity. It's been quiet. No one's showing their hand, certainly, that they're into Malik Willis. To me, it makes sense to me. So let's be smart, Cardinals, and let's not shoot for the bottom middle. You've been living there for about 80 years, making decisions like bringing in Jimmy Garoppolo because you're familiar. You don't have a long timeline there, Mike LaFleur and Austin Ford.

33:34Jourdan Rodrigue:I think you got to win now. I think Malik Willis is your best chance. There it is.

33:38Patrick Claybon:Malik Willis off the board. I will go offense as well. I will go to the AFC North where the Pittsburgh Steelers are going to have Aaron Rodgers back. We don't know that, but I am saying it's going to happen. And he will throw the ball short to Debo Samuel, who will be catching passes from Aaron Rodgers.

33:53Gregg Rosenthal:Oh, I love him with the Steelers. Yeah, me too. Oh, I love that pick. I'm drafting it. What a draft Patrick's having.

34:00Colleen Wolfe:I know. Oh, my God. Okay.

34:01Jourdan Rodrigue:That's fine.

34:02Colleen Wolfe:That's fine. Patrick, whatever. How about, we already mentioned him once, but I have him going to a new destination. Oh, yeah. John Franklin Myers is going to be playing once again under Jeff Ulbrich, who they were together for three seasons with the Jets, and now he ends up with the Atlanta Falcons, and I think that that would be a nice little way to kind of free up James Pierce Jr. and Jalen Walker and let them do some more creative things too. So that's a nice one. It's a good fit. I like that one.

34:36Jourdan Rodrigue:They're lying in the weeds, the Falcons, as a sneaky, fascinating team. Obviously, the quarterback situation is confusing. They've just got a lot going on. They could be great. They could be terrible.

34:46Gregg Rosenthal:I'm going with an NFL Daily Saturday Sickos favorite, Nick Monteric Buster Brown. I think that he will be going to the Los Angeles Rams. Yes, those Los Angeles Rams who did just trade for Trent McDuffie, I don't think they're done. I think that they're following the blueprint that they set earlier of bringing in at least two really good corners in one offseason. He's more of an under-the-radar guy, not a heralded draft pick. Plenty of information on him from the staff connections between Jacksonville and Los Angeles, and it just feels like such a Rams move to come and bring in this guy, and then he absolutely breaks out in their secondary.

35:28Jourdan Rodrigue:Breaking news. Jordan actually in Vegas has been established as the minus 250 favorite for this exercise. She's been trying to throw the audience off the scent saying Patrick's had the great draft. Here's the reality. There's only one real deal reporter in this room, right?

35:50Colleen Wolfe:Fair.

35:50Jourdan Rodrigue:That's actually reports on the NFL with inside connections. I would go as far to say if Jordan doesn't win, it's kind of disappointing. Shame. Shame on my whole family.

36:01Colleen Wolfe:What a whole new strategy this is by Ray.

36:07Gregg Rosenthal:He changed his entire approach from negging me at the beginning to now. Now I'm feeling overconfident right now.

36:15Jourdan Rodrigue:Complex. I do believe it, that she would be the favorite, and she's got to deliver as a favorite. That's the hardest thing to do in the NFL. I'm going to take Trey Hendrickson to the Bucks. It just makes sense to me. We hear them talked about with the Max Crosby potential deal. Hey, how about instead of giving up the farm for Max Crosby, let's just sign Trey Hendrickson for maybe less money than Max Crosby. And what are you saying?

36:41Patrick Claybon:Well, this feels like a familiar idea that we might have discussed. Did you already throw that out there? No, no, no. Collusion.

36:48Gregg Rosenthal:Collusion. I can't remember.

36:50Patrick Claybon:I can't remember if I thought or said it. So never mind. Scratch it.

36:53Jourdan Rodrigue:Not on this show, though. Not on this episode. Okay, well, then it's fair game. Schefter threw it out there, too. I mean, I'll say my sources. He threw it out there. Maybe it's a long time list. It's been making sense that they need a guy over the... Hey, look, if you wanted Trey Hendrickson to the Bucs, I'll give you the first six rounds of the draft to take him, and you didn't do it, Patrick. No, I did not.

37:14Patrick Claybon:I did not do that, and so credit to you, Greg. You've got Trey Hendrickson to the Bucs. I will not go with my other Trey Hendrickson team. Why not? And I will now go back to Jordan's, you know, stated relationship acknowledgement between the Los Angeles Rams and the Jacksonville Jaguars. James Gladstone is there. Let's say he has some departures and he needs a cornerback. They needed a cornerback anyway. Kobe Durant going to the Jacksonville Jaguars to play in their secondary.

37:40Jourdan Rodrigue:You know, after all the tags and there's been like a resigning or two, the top one on one's composition changed. and Kobe Durant snuck in there as number 100. Because you don't go to 101. Jadavion Fowney is the all-time 101. Why is that brutal? It's a great group.

38:00Gregg Rosenthal:Number 100.

38:01Jourdan Rodrigue:Ah, that's, hey, number 100. So much on the list. Yeah, it's an honor just to be nominated. Colleen, you are up.

38:08Colleen Wolfe:I'm right now just like also trying to put, get my head around the fact that David Blau is the offensive coordinator for the commanders.

38:16Jourdan Rodrigue:And Durante Jones is their defensive coordinator. and neither one of them have ever called plays before and they're both calling plays. Pretty fascinating.

38:23Colleen Wolfe:That is super interesting. Okay. Well, the reason I bring that up is because I think Isaiah likely ends up with the commanders, especially with Zach Ertz, his future up in the air. Now likely can come out of the shadow of Mark Andrews and be the number one guy.

38:41Gregg Rosenthal:That's a great pick.

38:42Jourdan Rodrigue:I love that.

38:43Gregg Rosenthal:I'm mad I didn't think it up.

38:44Jourdan Rodrigue:I feel like we should have a lot of commanders. Right now we have one. Patrick had Rashid Jaheed going there. They just feel like they're going to go back to old school Snyder era commanders style and spend all the money they need to.

38:57Gregg Rosenthal:I have a, another destination potentially for Rashid Shahid.

39:03Jourdan Rodrigue:Okay.

39:03Gregg Rosenthal:I think it is the now Joe Brady led Buffalo bills, Joe Brady, who at one point worked under Sean Payton in new Orleans and who Pete Carmichael, who now is his offensive coordinator is a mentor. was a mentor and has familiarity with Rashid Shahid. This is basically going to be a team that can't ignore the noise around it anymore. A front office that is under pressure, in my opinion. Very much a group feeling the heat of if they don't bring in more pass catchers. And I think Rashid Shahid is a great fit for those gorgeous Josh Allen long balls that we would really like to see actually activated.

39:47Patrick Claybon:It feels like it would be cheating in some aspects.

39:49Gregg Rosenthal:Yeah. Which is why they should do it.

39:52Jourdan Rodrigue:A great offense, a great passing attack. They got to have the different types, you know, the different components. And he is such a great type to add to the mix. Like I think of like the old Kyle Shanahan Falcons team for some reason. He'd be like a supercharged. Who is it? Taylor Gabriel. I mean, but like a supercharged one. I think about. Taking the top off.

40:13Gregg Rosenthal:I want to see it.

40:14Jourdan Rodrigue:I'm going to go receiver too. Juwan Jennings, let's put him with the Raiders. Connection there would be Clint Kubiak with him in San Francisco. Similar system. He just feels exactly like a free agent who's going to get signed by a coach that's worked with him previously because it's like, oh, we know what we're getting with Juwan. We'll pay a little extra than his old team would. He's going to be a rock-solid receiver. The Titans also make sense, but since I gave them Wandale, I will give Juwan Jennings to the Raiders.

40:41Patrick Claybon:I'll go defensive because it's good business for the Bengals to try to make things look worse for Coach Lou. And so Nick Cross will leave and be signed by the Cincinnati Bengals and play in Coach Golden's second game.

40:54Gregg Rosenthal:That makes a lot of sense.

40:57Jourdan Rodrigue:And that would maybe cross off some of the safety talk we've heard with the Bengals in the draft. We are all the way to the ninth round.

41:05Colleen Wolfe:I was just going to ask, what round are we?

41:07Jourdan Rodrigue:You only have two picks left for each of us. So keep that in mind when you're making your picks. Okay, I am going to get some help for the Cowboys in their secondary,

41:19Colleen Wolfe:which is crazy probably for me to do. But I'm going to send Rick Woolen there because he just for some reason feels like he should have already been playing in Dallas. I almost went back to look if he did play in Dallas. You're absolutely right. He did not play in Dallas, but I think that's just because he's meant to be there. All right.

41:41Jourdan Rodrigue:Based on the quality of Patrick's draft, the understanding of connections from Colleen and the reporting from Jordan, I'm actually raising the over under of correct answers. It's going to need to get this thing right. I think it's four and a half.

41:58Gregg Rosenthal:Wow. And how does that work? Four and a half. Like four, you won't win.

42:03Jourdan Rodrigue:Five, you probably win. That's what I would say. You know, Greg's got the itch. He's trying to set the line with this. Yeah.

42:09Gregg Rosenthal:And actually, yeah. He's getting a little hot under the collar. He's getting a little hot under the collar.

42:12Jourdan Rodrigue:There's less rules in California about it, and so Polymarket, which we normally hate, actually has established that Jordan is now less of a favorite, but still a favorite. Still a favorite. Minus 190 now after Colleen's good pick. You're up.

42:27Gregg Rosenthal:Well.

42:27Jourdan Rodrigue:I don't know if any of that's making it to the show.

42:29Gregg Rosenthal:We'll see. We'll see how this one goes. I think Travis Etienne to the Chiefs would be a really, really solid match. I would like to see it. they really want. I'll show you my board.

42:39Jourdan Rodrigue:It was right there next up.

42:41Gregg Rosenthal:And I also pulled a pick away from Greg. That's good. And the ninth round, which makes me feel a little bit floaty inside.

42:48Jourdan Rodrigue:Yes, you should. That is incredibly annoying. And yet, no. And yet I'm now just going to go off. I am now just freestyling here and what I want to see. Okay. Just in the way that I can totally imagine that too. I, I really liked that one. I should have taken it earlier. I could just imagine in week one starter Tanner McKee for the New York Jets. I just I just can see. I know I'm just swinging blind here. I'm just. No, it's not just about getting it right. It's about creating some good content. And let's Photoshop that Tanner McKee.

43:23Colleen Wolfe:No.

43:24Patrick Claybon:Why don't we just make that the entire jet? Like, yeah, that right there in Florham Park.

43:28Jourdan Rodrigue:I want that getting it right. Bona as something we're sending out. I want the Tanner McKee in the Jets jersey. I can just see it. He would probably be set up for disaster, but you never know. Patrick, you're up. Tanner McKee, of course, the backup quarterback of the Philadelphia Eagles. It's for a third-round pick. I'll even throw that in. I don't have to get that right to get the credit. Okay. Because trades are allowed. We haven't really done trades here. We haven't done really trades because that adds another level of difficulty here. But trades are allowed if you wanted to. So we have two picks left?

44:00Jourdan Rodrigue:Like Max Crosby. You have two picks left. Everyone else has one.

44:04Patrick Claybon:So just so I can go head to head with you on the Vikings quarterback, I would like to take Eugene Cyril Smith. Thank you. To the Minnesota Vikings as a quarterback.

44:13Jourdan Rodrigue:I've never rooted for you more to be right.

44:17Gregg Rosenthal:That's a good use of a ninth round.

44:19Jourdan Rodrigue:I need this. I need Kevin O 'Connell to resurrect Gino and make it happen. I think it would be fantastic. That's my favorite rumor I heard all throughout Indianapolis. All right, your last pick.

44:32Colleen Wolfe:This is my last pick, and it's my most out there. I'm going to go ahead and do like a crazy dark horse, insane wild card scenario. But my head says that Mike Evans is going to be back in Tampa Bay. However, if he doesn't go back to Tampa Bay, I do not think that he goes to Buffalo. I think that he goes to the Texans because Houston is his home. He went to college there. He keeps his off-season home there. And if he is going to just do a little bit of like an ending type tour to an incredible career, maybe he goes home for the end.

45:10Gregg Rosenthal:Wow. That is that is bold that because they have a lot of receivers. But I could see him doing like sort of a pre-retirement like victory lap, essentially. I would just like to see him end his career on a happy note. I hate seeing him injured and I hate seeing him frustrated. and we need Baker Ball. We need him back with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, my beloved Bucs. We need Baker Ball to keep on rolling for maybe a last ride before an extension or not. We're all waiting for it. She's begging for it. Come on. Don't do it. Don't do it. Don't do it. I'm taking notes. I'm playing music. What do you guys want me to do here?

45:49Gregg Rosenthal:Jesus Christ. I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear it. Here we go. I don't want to hear it. Keep sun rolling, baby. There it is. You're getting the full minute of it now. Full minute.

46:00Jourdan Rodrigue:Full minute. We broke him.

46:02Gregg Rosenthal:I love...

46:03Jourdan Rodrigue:We did it. Aggravated Roberts is my favorite.

46:07Gregg Rosenthal:This is like... It's the best. He's like a mom who snacked.

46:10Colleen Wolfe:45 more seconds. Yeah. Here. You want it? You got it. Here it is. I'm not going to stop playing it now.

46:15Jourdan Rodrigue:Eat the damn ice cream, Austin. Here. You want it? Jeez. Are you guys still talking? You going to talk Gino to the Vikings for the fifth time this week? Like, that's what's going on in Eric's head. All right. Let's stop it.

46:26Gregg Rosenthal:I just want to point out that I've done nothing wrong, so I should not be subjected to this. You said the words, Jordan.

46:31Jourdan Rodrigue:You know what you were doing.

46:34Gregg Rosenthal:You knew what you were doing. He's so... He's just...

46:38Jourdan Rodrigue:15. No, we... No, no. Please turn it off. Turn it off.

46:42Gregg Rosenthal:For the love of God, turn it off. We are going to check the data,

46:46Jourdan Rodrigue:and you can find out when people turned off the show, and I want to see how many did it exactly.

46:52Gregg Rosenthal:Oh, my God.

46:53Jourdan Rodrigue:They want these last two picks.

46:54Gregg Rosenthal:Well, I'm actually really glad. I'm glad if they've turned it off before my last pick because this is an absolute wild card. This is unbelievable. I love this. This will not happen. And yet, there are certain teams that I think are led by insane enough human beings to make something like this happen. And I know that for a few years now, the Los Angeles Rams have been discussing certain potentially tradable quarterbacks ahead of the deadline as reclamation projects. seeing how they would like to get guys in their building, turn them into capital elsewhere. And if, this is my hinge point, if Jimmy Garoppolo, the current backup quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams, as I previously picked, goes to the Arizona Cardinals, I would actually like to see Kyler Murray, who does not fit in this system, no, but come to the Los Angeles Rams where Sean McVay has recently made Cliff Kingsbury the assistant head coach and had said in his press conference earlier this week that he would like to borrow some ideas from some of the offenses that Cliff ran.

48:04Gregg Rosenthal:Kyler would not be a starter. He would be a safeguard in case of an injury to Matthew Stafford and a player who they would want to turn into value down the road by trading. That is my wildest potential matchmaking scenario. And also, Kyler, California, son, a nice break from having to be the starter. Just taking a rest for a second a la Mac Jones. Coming back to himself, healing up. And then we'll see what he's got.

48:34Jourdan Rodrigue:Makes a lot of sense. But everyone's turned off the show by now. I thought you were going Anthony Richardson.

48:39Gregg Rosenthal:I wonder what Chris Fibona thinks of this. I see him looking intrigued behind the glass over there. I'll catch it offline.

48:45Jourdan Rodrigue:That would be a great potential successor.

48:47Gregg Rosenthal:What did you think? I thought he was going to go Anthony Richardson to the Rams.

48:50Jourdan Rodrigue:It's just like a fun, weird.

48:52Gregg Rosenthal:I like this one better.

48:54Jourdan Rodrigue:Reclamation project. Yeah, I like Kyler. I mean, how are we feeling about how Kyler and Cliff ended? I guess after Dennis Allen bringing C.J. Gardner-Johnson to the Bears. Yeah, anything. Any reunion is possible. But it felt a little weird there by the end. I'm struggling. What? Do I want to go like logic or do I just want to have something crazy?

49:17Gregg Rosenthal:Come on. Live a little. Let your hair down.

49:18Jourdan Rodrigue:Do I want to have a little bit of fun?

49:20Gregg Rosenthal:Think of the Greg of 10 years ago. Yeah. On the beat. On the beat. NFL now.

49:27Jourdan Rodrigue:Let's just do the move that we all talked about all year. AJ Brown of the Patriots. Why not? The thing that makes me hesitate here is like he's just going to. Man, I'm talking myself out of it before I even say it. But he's going to cost a lot. in terms of draft compensation. And man, they cannot give up draft picks. Also, it hurt the Eagles' bottom line a little bit. But there is a logic. I do think they're going to get someone big at wide receiver after cutting Stephon Diggs. All right, you're up, Patrick.

49:57Patrick Claybon:Well, I can't have any of my boring moves

49:58Jourdan Rodrigue:after what would be the most blockbuster move.

50:01Gregg Rosenthal:This is round 10 is the let's get weird round. I love it.

50:05Jourdan Rodrigue:Okay. I know. I was going to go like Kobe Bryant to the Ravens.

50:08Gregg Rosenthal:And I was like, eh, that's not exciting enough. Too safe.

50:11Jourdan Rodrigue:Wow. Okay. So the shade.

50:14Gregg Rosenthal:Now's your chance to pick Kobe Bryant to the Ravens, Patrick.

50:17Patrick Claybon:You can't. You can't do that. I'm going to keep it boring. I will have because Kevin Stefanski has never had the type of talent that he has. Big talent at wide receiver and tight end in Atlanta. But he has had a lot of Nick Westbrook Aquinas. And Nick Westbrook Aquinas will come in and play wide receiver for the Atlanta Falcons.

50:37Gregg Rosenthal:You're the best. I'm going to keep it boring. Pause. Kevin Stefanski.

50:43Jourdan Rodrigue:No, that was great. That was a callback. That was, you know, you went back to the strategy that got us all angry at you at the beginning. I appreciate it.

50:53Colleen Wolfe:I'm so excited. That got us all angry, he says.

51:00Jourdan Rodrigue:I'm angry at myself with that AJ Brown one. That was a bad one. It's not going to happen.

51:05Gregg Rosenthal:Not with that attitude. I just wanted to.

51:07Jourdan Rodrigue:I love podcasting with you four.

51:09Gregg Rosenthal:No Stefan Diggs in there anymore. They have room. Are you counting yourself in the four?

51:14Jourdan Rodrigue:Yeah, no, I'm counting Eric. Chris still has to earn my love. You know, Eric's been around longer.

51:20Gregg Rosenthal:Hey, I've been there, Chris.

51:21Jourdan Rodrigue:I said I love podcasting with all of you guys. What a week it has been for us. When you hear from us next, we will be starting to recap the frenzy. Who knows?

51:33Colleen Wolfe:I don't know.

51:34Jourdan Rodrigue:Sunday night, Nick Shook and I are going to go live on YouTube. I haven't told anyone else this. But we're going to go live on YouTube because the frenzy really starts on Monday when the tampering window. But here's what I've learned.

51:50Colleen Wolfe:Illegal tampering.

51:51Jourdan Rodrigue:A lot is going to happen over the weekend before that even happens. And so, actually, let's get a day ahead of it. Let's clear the decks a little bit. There will be more than enough show for a Sunday night show and a Monday afternoon show. Patrick is going to be live on NFL Network hosting the Insiders on Monday. but Jordan will be with me and Steve Weiss. We're going to be live on the NFL channel. You can watch us there. We're going to be live on YouTube and you're going to hear us in your ears in terms of the podcast. That'll be 4 p.m. Pacific, 7 p.m. Eastern on Monday. So that's our next pressure.

52:26Colleen Wolfe:I will also be on the network on Monday. Colleen, free agency friends. I didn't even have to ask.

52:31Jourdan Rodrigue:I knew she was hosting more important things than this and we couldn't get her, but we got her this week for two shows. Thank you.

52:37Colleen Wolfe:Yeah.

52:38Jourdan Rodrigue:I love working and doing shows with you. Love you back, guys. We'll see you on the other side.

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