BEST OF NFL NEWS PART 2: Scary Terry OVERPAID? + Anthony Richardson’s FUTURE

22:11Shannon Sharpe:What? It'll probably be at 18th game. Ah, that's right. That 18th game going to be here, 28. I'm saying 28. 28. Yeah, probably. Bigger piece of the pie, too, so. Hey, so. But I'm glad Terry gets it. He's right there with Garrett Wilson, A.J. Brown, Terry McLaurin. They're all around 32 million. And then you got Amon Ross St. Brown, Brandon Ayuk, Tyreek, T. Higgins at 11, Jalen Waddell is at 12. So the 2019 draft third round pick has been the team's leader in reception and receiving yards each of his six seasons. He's put together a string of five straight 1 ,000-yard campaigns, Ocho, becoming the first in NFL history to do so with a different quarterback every year per NFL research.

23:05Shannon Sharpe:So he's had a different starting quarterback basically every single year he's been there. He's putting together kind of like what D-Hop did with Houston. it didn't matter who D-Hop I could have been throwing to D-Hop and he was going to be an all pro now when he got Deshaun it really took him to another level but it didn't matter if it was Case Keenum if it was Brian Hoyer, if it was Brock Osweiler D-Hop ain't give a damn who the quarterback was D-Hop was putting his work on everybody everybody so that's how D-Hop really made a name for himself because he could have used every excuse man, give me a quarterback give me this or give me that D-Hop said, nah, I got who I got.

23:47Shannon Sharpe:But y 'all know I am who I am. Yeah. All you had to do was put the ball in the vicinity. That's it. I still don't believe this man, Bill O 'Brien, traded D-Hop for a damn running back. I don't know what's wrong. You're talking about a top – at the time, D-Hop had to be top two, top three receiver. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. And you traded for a running back? Yeah. I think he wanted to get paid, too, if I'm not mistaken, right? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's always the deal. That's always the problem. And the running back is already out of the league, and D-Hop's still going. Mm-hmm. He goes to Arizona, has great seasons.

24:28Shannon Sharpe:Mm-hmm. He's not the same D-Hop that he once was. Yeah. But hell, who is at year 12? Unless you Jerry. Mm-hmm. Yeah, right. Everybody's starting to slow down year 12, 13, Ocho, if you're fortunate enough to play that long at the receiver position. only Jerry was still putting up crazy Jerry had 1200 yards at 40 what 40 year old you know that's going to be playing I mean think about it, Jerry got to be 26 you think Jerry going to put up 1200 yards 14 years from now, hell no people don't realize how long people don't realize how long Jerry actually played and the numbers you got to realize what was that 97 he tore his ACL the first game of the season, came back that same season.

25:17Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. He caught two touchdowns against us. The funny thing about it is his situation is probably a little different than everybody else is because he was a focal point of the offense when it came to passing the ball. He was still the viable number one option. Yeah. The targets and opportunity always presented itself. Now, most of the players in this day and age, when you reach a certain age and you hit 30, they start acting funny with you. Oh, yeah, they find somebody else, they drafted somebody. Bingo, and they'll decrease your opportunities, they'll decrease your targets, and they'll say, oh, well, you lost a step.

25:51I ain't lose nothing. Don't play with me.

25:53Shannon Sharpe:They dated to him, too. They drafted J.J. Stokes, and the next year, who they draft, Ocho? T. Your boy. Oh, yeah. So it happened to everybody. Don't think, don't think, because, oh, you J. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. They looking to replace you. They looking. Yeah. And then T.O. put together a monster season? And they put together the monster season. T.O. had that game against the Bears where he had 265 and 20 catches on Jerry Rice Day. The Bears say, nah. If somebody else can catch for 300 yards, get 30 passes. But it won't be him. You ain't touching it. And guess what? T.O. went crazy. T.O.

26:39Shannon Sharpe:went crazy. Ed, as they say, the rest is history. Yeah.

26:49Shannon Sharpe:But it seems to me, Ocho, and we're going to talk about this a little bit with the Bengals, is that the team has all the leverage. Guys are not willing to miss a million dollars. Guys are not willing to miss$800 ,000,$2 million. Guys are not willing to miss that kind of money, Ocho. Right. So although they might be in the right, I have great I have a great foundation to stand on. I need to be compensated because I've outperformed the contract. I know this. You know this. If I had underperformed the contract, you would have released me. So I've outperformed the contract. Compensate me. But very few guys are willing to risk.

27:34Shannon Sharpe:Now, I wouldn't miss the whole season. Probably I would come back eight games because I want to get accredited. because if you miss the whole season, you lose accreditation. You don't get credit for that season. So you got to get at least eight games, Ocho, in order to get credit for the season. But, Ocho, guys ain't really trying to miss no$9,$10,$12 million. No.

27:57Shannon Sharpe:So that's the leverage that the teams have, and they know it. They know you're not going to miss that money. See, Jerry knows. Jerry says all that. Jerry going to go to the bank and say, hey, check this out. I'm going to be a little slow this month, so I'll probably catch y 'all in October. Okay, Mr. Jones. Because they saw Jerry just got a check for 432 in March. Absolutely. So they'll put that down the road. I can't go to my kid's school and say, you know, I'm a little behind this month. No, no, no, Mr. Sharp. We're going to need that$3 ,000 child care. We're going to need that$15 ,000 for school.

28:37Shannon Sharpe:private tuition. They'll give those guys the benefit of the doubt. Yeah. Just like us. We're in situations, Ocho, that we get things from financial institutions that normal people couldn't go do. Right. I understand. I'm not trying to tell you. I'm just saying there are certain things that they'll allow us to do, knowing who we are, knowing the financial situations that we're in, they're going to be a little bit more lax. Right. but guys are just, they just can't, they just can't afford to lose, leave that kind of money on the table. And it's been going on for so long. Guys are like, they fight it as long as they can.

29:19Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. But you got to hold in, but you know, at the end of the day, like I said, I just can't see a situation where Michael Parsons is going to leave 1.3 million on the table. I just can't. I don't know. Hey, because think about it. 1.3 million and Texas. Yeah. I know, but still, I don't know. Because if you fold here, then that's your leverage. Then you don't get it. Didn't Jerry tell you? We got him under contract for three more years. He has no leverage. He's not going to play with him like that. What did you? Did you see Jerry slide to the front of his chair when he talked to Stephen A.? Yeah.

30:02Shannon Sharpe:When somebody slide to the front of their chair, Ojo. They mean business. Okay. They mean business. Listen, in a conversation like that, when it comes to money and you slide forward or when you're playing video games. This is very important. I know you don't play video games, but the check and the test of this. When stuff is getting serious and it's in the fourth quarter. And you slide up in your chair and get closer to the monitor. Yeah. It's go time. It's go time. You mean nothing but business at that point. So I know I know Jerry was serious. I knew he was serious. and he meant exactly what he was saying.

30:37Shannon Sharpe:He wanted to make sure Stephen A. understood the seriousness of what he was saying. Yeah. We got him under contract for three more years. So he's telling you, I got this fifth-year option and I got two franchise tags. I'm not afraid to use them. That's nasty work too, though. That's nasty work. Matter of fact, they even mention that, they even say that. And no, it doesn't surprise me based on some of the comments he said previously when talking about Jesse if I pay him not doesn't mean he's going to be available because he got hurt what? That's still just unbelievable. Have you been watching the documentary?

31:18Shannon Sharpe:No I still ain't sure. Okay I think it was 96 when he did the deal outside of the NFL because the NFL with Nike he did a deal with Phil Knight Nike and the league sued him for$250 million. Who won? Hold on. Come on. They sued him for$250 million. Uh-huh. Jerry turned around and countersued them for$700 million. Talking about they had a monopoly. So they was at the owner's meeting. They had the Norman Cop. Okay, now they asked Jerry to leave because they about to talk about him. Right. So Jerry tells the story that he got sucked. He gets sucked and he starts to walk out because he knows he can't be a part of the meeting.

32:07Shannon Sharpe:He said, I know, guys, you guys are suing me for$300 million and you're going to try to take my ball club. He said, I know that's what y 'all are going to do. He said, but I tell you what, I'm suing you for$700 million and if I win, I'm going to collect every effing cent. Wait, he talked, wait, hold on. He got cojones like that? He says, I know what y 'all trying to do. He say, but if I win, I'm going to collect every, I don't care how long it takes, I'm going to collect every effing set. Time out. What is, what's the cowboy documentary on? Netflix. Man, I'm going to watch this tonight, bro. How many, how many episodes?

32:55It's like eight episodes. Oh, I got to see that. Oh, yeah.

33:00Shannon Sharpe:Hold on, Paul Tagliabue went for that? What you going to do? Because at the end of the day, look, them owners, legal fees are coming out of their pockets. Right. That's why every time they're like, hey, the longer something goes on, litigation goes on, those billable hours. I know a little something about billable hours.

33:34Shannon Sharpe:when you start getting up there, Ocho, you start getting up there$1 ,000,$1 ,500,$2 ,000 an hour, and everything is a charge. You call a, how's it going? That's a charge. Right. They go down there and file. That's a charge. They answer a motion. That's a charge. Jesus. You in court. That's a charge.

34:01Shannon Sharpe:But that's a different ball game, too. See, Jerry was saying, hold on. Jerry said, hold on. I'm doing four times what anybody else is doing, but I'm getting one thirtieth of it. No more. Oh, that's crazy. No more. Oh, that's crazy. Look, the one thing that the NFL don't like get sued, that's why they kind of left Al alone. Al said, I'm going to LA. No, Al, you can't do that. I'll sue you. I'm going back to Oakland Al you can't do that I'm excited now how did the story end with the NFL and Jerry Jerry is the only one that's not a part of the revenue sharing when it comes to merchandise when it comes to that stuff so he pockets everything everything that's the Dallas Cowboys the NFL said they own the logo no you don't I believe that.

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37:43Shannon Sharpe:All pro safety, Kyle Hamilton and the Ravens have reached an agreement. A four-year extension worth$100.4 million is the largest deal for safety in NFL history And the deal includes$82 million. Guaranteed. However, they got a bigger deal looming. Lamar Jackson, his salary cap number is$43.5 million and$25 million. $74.5 million and$26 million. With Lamar continuing, he still represents himself here and his mom. Are we headed for a long draw-not negotiation? or this is going to be simple and painless? It's going to be simple and plainest. Simply for the fact, this is quarterback number one. This is the future of your organization, probably for the next 10 years.

38:35Obviously, we saw young bull down there in Buffalo get his deal. I forgot what the numbers were, but I know it was in North was maybe 300, 330, something like that.

38:44Shannon Sharpe:I think it's over 300 with 250, 250 guaranteed. Yeah. Guaranteed. So obviously, Lamar is going to be somewhere, are probably going to leapfrog that in some way, shape, form, or fashion. Representation, being his mom, them having the right people in their corner, understanding how everything works, being that they've already worked one deal. So it's pretty easy where the numbers are going to be, and they're going to work it out. And maybe I wouldn't be surprised if it happens maybe before the season or maybe in the middle of the season. But it's probably going to be done simply when it comes to certain players, when it comes to certain players, especially this position, you don't play no games.

39:23You don't play no games in that position. So the quarterbacks have nothing to worry about except just football.

39:28Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, I like them going ahead and getting this deal with Kyle Hamilton out of the way. They tie it up. The Ravens are normally very, very good about this. They're a homegrown talent. They take care of those guys. They always have. I believe they always will. You go back and look at the Jonathan Ogden, the Ray Lewis, the Terrell Suggs, the Ed Reed. Those guys, they take care of their guys. They've always done that. they took care of Lamar that they did make Lamar play you know or the franchise tag one year I'm surprised well he didn't play in the franchise tag they nobody uh even put money down when so how many guys uh needed a quarterback and could have given up easily two first round draft picks I don't think I think that's the going rate for a quarterback of Lamar two first rounders you'd have been gladly giving those guys up because hell you feel that when you give those guys up that you're going to be so far down in the draft it's not going to harm you you don't think when you get Lamar Jackson, you're going to be picking in the top 10 again.

40:21Shannon Sharpe:With that being said, they took care of Kyle Hamilton. Now they can put their attention on Lamar Jackson. And I agree with you. At some point in time, this deal is going to get done. They're not going into the season next year with a$75 million cap hit for a quarterback. Could I potentially see them doing something done, getting something done? It all depends on him. Because at the end of the day, Ocho, you said it best. He and his mom are their representation. They do have an NFLPA attorney, I think, to help them read over language and probably pay an hourly rate or something like that. That's better than giving up 3 % to 4%.

40:54Shannon Sharpe:I'll pay you hourly. I'll give you, you know, whatever the case may be. Let's just say a round number. Let's just say$1 ,000 an hour for you to reel the contract to make sure everything's going to up and up. All the language is what it needs to be. But with that being said, he's not going into next season with no$75 million cap hit. That's for damn sure. Absolutely not. I think it's going to happen sooner rather than later that he's going to get something done. And I can see, I agree with you, I can see them somewhere at some point in time getting a deal done if he wants to get it done. He might say, well, if we don't get this thing done by the first game, I'm done talking contracts until after the season.

41:35Yeah, obviously when you think about someone like Lamar, someone like Lamar that I know personally, he's strictly football. When it comes to the business side of things, obviously he has mom right there to handle those issues. but Lamar is one that just wants to play football. And we understand the nature of the business and you don't want to get yourself in any type of distract your situations that can take you from said game of football. But obviously his eye is on the prize and that eye is on the prize has nothing to do with money because he's already been paid. So his focus is on doing what we need to do to dominate in the AFC North and contend and get ourselves to, for one, the playoffs and to get over the hump of getting out the playoffs and having a chance at the goddamn football.

42:16Shannon Sharpe:Absolutely right. Look, the guy's a two-time MVP. You're not going to pay? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no. He's a three-time MVP. You can't do that. We got to give him what he got. I don't care what the numbers say. He's a three-time MVP. Now, they took one of those MVPs from him based on one of the best statistical seasons from a quarterback in the history of the game. So I love Josh Allen. But last year's MVP was a damn here. That's what that was. I'm just being realistic. That's what I'm here. That's what that was. But you're going to pay Lamar Jackson, the guy that's not even 30 years of age yet.

42:58Shannon Sharpe:You're going to pay him, you believe, the next five or seven years. He'll still put up the kind of numbers that he's been putting up the last three to four years. 30, 40 pass touchdowns still can give you somewhere between five and 800 rush yards. low turnover rate like you said he just needs to get over that he just needs to get that one time to play like Lamar Jackson in the regular season because so many times we've seen him he went like a stretch where he had 8-9 games he didn't turn the ball over he didn't bumble the ball he didn't throw a pick he did none of that and then he got I think in that playoff game the divisional round against Baltimore he ended up having two turnovers look he still had him in position if the tight end if he catches that Mark Andrews, if he catches that two-point play, now we're possibly in the overtime or, I mean, the defense is going to have to stand to keep Josh Allen out of the field goal range and then we go to overtime.

43:51Shannon Sharpe:We'll never know. But we have yet to see Lamar Jackson play in a big-time game come postseason like the Lamar Jackson that we thought should have won the MVP. See, because if that guy showed up, they go into the Super Bowl. And that's what we keep expecting, Ocho. That's what we keep wanting to see because we know he has it in him because we've seen it. It's not like we're asking – we're not asking Lamar Jackson to do anything he has not put on tape in the regular season. That's the only thing because we've seen him put on tape. He throw for 300. He'll rush for 50, 70, 80 yards. We've seen him have three touchdown passes, two touchdown rushing.

44:32Shannon Sharpe:So we're not asking him to do anything that we have not already seen with our own eyes. it's just that in the playoffs more times than not he's turned the ball over and yeah once he gets that out of his way you know it's sometimes it takes others long to live we've gotten spoiled tom brady went his first second first year starting he went uh um patrick mahomes his first year starting he goes to the fc championship game the next year his uh second year starting he went to he wins the super bowl he wins regular season mvp and that same thing with lamar think about it Lamar, his first year starting, he won the MVP.

45:08Shannon Sharpe:So we know what he can be capable of. We just need him to be that person come playoff time. And if he does that, the Ravens are going to be hell because the Ravens got a heck of a football team. They got a heck of a football team. I think John Harbaugh is an unbelievable coach defensively. They got guys that fly around to the football. They got Jahir Alexander. They got Wiggins outside. They got Marlon Humphrey in the slot. They got Hamilton. I think they took another safety in the first round. They're good. Roquan Smith, they're loaded. They're loaded. They got Bateman. They got Zay Flowers. The running back, Ricard, is back.

45:49Shannon Sharpe:They got Derrick Henry. They got Staley is back. Lamar, they are loaded. Now, Lively's going to be out a little while because I think he got dealing with a foot injury. But they got Mount Andrews, who's been an all-pro, who's gone to multiple Pro Bowls. This team is loaded. This team is equipped, and they should. You should be thinking, hey, we got to take care of business and win our division, but they should have loftier expectations based on the personnel that they have on the team and based on the coaching staff that they have. But, yeah, Lamar, they're going to get something done. $43.5 million, that's not excessive as far as the cap, Ocho, but$75 million, yeah, that's excessive.

46:29Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. That's way to. During Terry McCartney's push for a new contract, age was cited as a big factor in the reluctance. Terry turns 30 in mid-September. That ultimately didn't stop the team from agreeing on a three-year deal with the wideout. At the press conference today, McLaurin was asked about his response to the concerns that neither he nor the deal will age well. The data is the data. But I think people, they're outliers. There are people who may not necessarily fit into that set of data. Only time will tell, but I feel like where things are in my ability. In January, I ran like 60-yard screen for a touchdown.

47:08Shannon Sharpe:My speed hasn't diminished at all. My toughness is there. If anything, my savviness of playing receiver has grown. Hey, listen. Honestly, listen. All the analytics and data and stuff that they have based on age and wear and tear and amount of miles on your legs, none of that really matters. No, it doesn't matter to us. It matters to them. Yeah, no, it don't matter to us. It just matters to those who cut those checks. Yeah, that's all. That's all. And so they look at it from a business standpoint. Maybe I won't get another Terry McLaurin. I can get somebody that can give me half the production and I can I can put that money elsewhere.

47:45That's the way they think. But when it comes to a team that is on the verge of being able to go to a Super Bowl that has a young quarterback that you haven't had to pay yet. You want to make a deal like this happen, which I don't understand why they were waiting from a business standpoint. But why are we waiting? Are you serious about winning? Them getting that deal done for Terry McLaurin lets me know that they're serious about winning and the quarterback not having the power or leverage to be able to go upstairs and say, listen, we need to get this done. We need to get this done because we have a small window of opportunity.

48:13We have a good we have OK defense. But I understand we can do offensively if we have number 17 in this room for us to make that run for Lombardi. Hell, we got to the NFC championship with him. he was I'm not sure what percentage but he was he was responsible for a high percentage of that offense especially when it comes to throwing the ball in the air so what is there to play about I don't care what data I don't care what analytics say I know what happens I know what he does when you put when you turn that goddamn film on in 17 he gonna show up every time the question is Ocho

48:42Shannon Sharpe:what we don't know we're not privy to these conversations did he lower the ceiling or did they raise the floor. That's a good one. That's what you and I are not privy to those conversations. What I mean by that, Chad, did he lower his price or did they raise their offer? That's what we don't know. All we know is that the deal got done. You and I both think maybe it took a little longer than probably what it should, but in any negotiation, there needs to be a give and take because you don't want someone to begrudgingly give you something and then you guys become resentful of each other but by the same token um yeah um you don't want to like man feel like you got screwed over because now you're gonna feel like you you know they tried they took advantage of you so i i think at this at the number that he ended up getting i think everybody can live i think everybody can live with that he doesn't have to go in and play on that fifth year option um now he gets to come now he gets to come in and get a good number.

49:52Shannon Sharpe:Like I said, Ocho, what can he do with$32 million that he only needed$34 million to be able to do it? Right. Listen, he comes in fair. It's a respectful offer. Obviously, it's not as high as you want because you are 30, but they found a happy medium. A happy medium for him, his family, wife, kids. They can be happy. The team is happy. Jaden Daniels gets his receiver on a nice peace, sound mind. So now all you can do, the business side of it is over. Let's go play football. Let's play football and prepare for week one with no distractions. Yeah. We all go. They're going to have to do something with Laramie Tunsil.

50:37Shannon Sharpe:They're going to have to do something with Lou Lou. Are they going to do anything with Marshawn Lattimore? that's the way Jane Daniels is coming up in after next year. So, you know, they, they got some other pieces and they needed to get this out of the way. So they don't have this, you know, going into a next season with Tunsil and Lobo and those other, and a few other guys on show let's go ahead and piece by piece, because in two years, you're going to have to go see five. I think it's, ain't Jane Daniels five yet. You're going to have to see it. Yep. And it's going to cost you a chunk of change.

51:11Shannon Sharpe:Now it's going to, Hey, Oh, yeah. Yeah, you have to do something strange for a little. You have to do something strange to pay that piece of change. You got to understand, you got three quarterbacks, right? That's going to come up, and it's going to break the bank for their team. So you want to take advantage of those situations now. Over there in Houston, boy, you better back the brink truck up. Down there in Washington, you better be able to back the brink truck up. At some point, I think after the season, no, Caleb Williams got one more. Bo Nix, they're going to have to back the brink. Well, he got another year, too.

51:47Yeah, yeah. Him and Caleb. Him and Bo Nix and Caleb will be at the same time. All of them came out the same draft. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Come on. Talk to me now. Talk to me nice, too. Let me know. Show me how much you love me.

52:03Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. I mean, look, the thing is you try to win as much as you can because when these quarterbacks, these young quarterbacks, when it's time to dance, it kind of inhibits what you're able to do. You can't just arbitrarily go, okay, I'll just go get that. Because when you have him on his rookie contract, you can do that. You can go get a guy and think about just one year. Okay, I think about just the now, just the here. But once you pay that guy, and you talk about you paying a guy 50, 60, and you're looking at this case, you're probably talking about somewhere between 63 and 60, 67, 68 million dollars.

52:37Shannon Sharpe:Who knows? Maybe even you touch 70. Yeah, without a pay. Yeah, and so you're looking at a quarter of a bill, a quarter of a billy guaranteed. So that's kind of where you're headed now. So with that being said, I think these general managers in the teams are trying to lock these guys up. So we don't want to have to do, I'm trying to do Laramie Tunsil. I'm trying to do Lovu. I'm trying to do Jane Daniels. I'm trying to do whoever else. let me go ahead and get do i deal one thing i can fight one battle at a time i don't want to spread myself too thin let me fight one battle at a time okay i gotta fight jane daniels let me go ahead and get this taken care of okay i need to deal with tonsil i need to deal with lovoo i need whomever let me deal with one individual at a time and i think that they'll be better served with that but it was it was good that uh mccloree got his got his money you know look whether we like it or not, Ocho, everybody is losing analytics.

53:37Shannon Sharpe:Because guess what else everybody's using? AI. Pretty soon they're going to come with AI. The team's going to be using AI to determine. Yeah. I mean, listen, the game of football is still football at the end of the day. I don't care what technology, what data, what analytics that teams try to go off of. Certain type of players win you championships. You're going to need your dogs in there. There are certain things that analytics and data can't measure. They can't measure skill. They can't measure heart. Sometimes you got to use your eyes and goddamn common sense. The Panthers trade Adam Thielen to the Vikings as the veteran receiver returns home.

54:18Shannon Sharpe:He is from Minnesota. The teams agreed to swap picks. The Vikings gave up a fifth-round pick in 26 and a fourth-round pick in 27. Carolina yields a conditional seventh-round pick in 26 and a fifth round in 27. Ocho, did the Vikings get better bringing him back? I think they got better, just the veteran presence in general. Just veteran presence in general having, obviously, Jordan Addison's going to be out, so you have Adam Thielen that can come in right now and play. And if you think about it, I'm sure people probably don't see or probably don't know, but Adam Thielen and J.J. McCarthy, they worked out in the offseason together.

54:53They were getting routes in, even though that's not his quarterback. They were getting some routes in, so there's a little bit of chemistry and familiarity in that area in that sense. So really, Adam Thielen coming back, being able to acclimate right back to that offense, right back at home, I think they're going to be fine. It's a great addition for them. And obviously, the Panthers letting them go, let you know how good and how much they believe in that young.

55:16Shannon Sharpe:Jimmy Horn may die at the roster. Jimmy Horn Jr. may die at the roster. You got damn right, Jimmy Horn, we're going to make it. Jimmy Horn is one of the better rookies in the NFL, especially when it comes to route running and being able to create separation and get open. So I understood that. Hell, Jimmy was so goddamn good. They let brother Hunter Winfro go. And Winfro is one, if considered one of the better route runners and also a creating separation and be able to get open. But that's how good. That's how good they are. Obviously, I'm very, very high, very, very high. And I've spoke highly of that receiving corps over there in Carolina.

55:49And if they're to have a year and want to compete, not only in that division, but have a successful season, it's going to be upon that receiving corps leading Brother Bryce Young to the promised land. So outside of that, I'm happy for Adam Thielen. He's going to be just fine back in Minnesota. J.J. McCarthy, Justin Jefferson, Adam Thielen. And when Jordan Addison comes back, that's a nice trio to have.

56:15Shannon Sharpe:And you still got Hawkinson, who's another year removed from that injury. Aaron Jones in the backfield. Yeah, I like the move. This is a Carolina's opportunity. I mean, I would have liked for him to stay there and help mentor some of those young receivers, don't you, that they have in Carolina. But the Carolinas look like it's our guys. It's time for them to grow up. It's time for them to grow up. We're counting on these young guys. You got McMillan. You got Leggett. You got Coker. You got Jimmy Horn Jr., like you said. So they got some young talent. Now it's just time for them. They don't have what you call a veteran presence in that locker room, Mocho, at the receiver position.

56:57Shannon Sharpe:They have veterans on the team. But I like the move. Would I have been disappointed if Carolina said no? But they said, you know what, for a fourth-round pick in 27? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We go ahead. We let y 'all have this. And I understand Minnesota because, like you said, Jordan Addison is going to be gone for three games. So now we've got somebody to come in that has a veteran presence, that understands the gravity and the magnitude of these games. They're in a very tough division, Ocho. That Green Bay's in that division. Detroit's in that division. We believe Chicago will be better in that division.

57:33Shannon Sharpe:So Detroit's like, nah, we don't have any excuses. We don't have any slippage. We want to get off, hit the ground running. And I think Adam Thielen gives them a great opportunity to do that. So I like the trade for both. But if Carolina said nah to keep Adam Thielen and to help him groom some of these young guys, I wouldn't have been upset at that either. Yeah. But you have to understand why they let him go. I think people in the chat need to understand when it comes to veteran players that are on teams and you have a young receiving core that is impressed not only in the preseason but in training camp, that's the only time you let a veteran presence of a player like Adam Thielen go because you trust what you've already seen.

58:09You trust what those young bulls have put on film. So now we know, you know what? We're going to be okay. We're going to be okay. And we're going to let them boys take the torch.

58:18Shannon Sharpe:And I'm sure they look. A part of us all want to go back home. You know, Dorothy wanted to go back to Kansas. A part of us want to go back to where it started from. And, you know, if you think about it, normally when a lot of people escape, what are the first place they go? They catch them at home. they go they they go go back to old familiar surroundings uh and so i think for adam adam you know he's like man i'm from minnesota i spent the first 10 years of my career in minnesota you know what my family he's probably minnesota is probably going to be home for him man i mean he's probably thinking didn't didn't know if it would ever come to fruition he's probably thinking man i sure would like to get home i sure would like to you know if any player last year or two in Minnesota.

59:06Shannon Sharpe:And here it is. He's going home. And Minnesota pull off a swap. They give up a fifth round pick in 26 and a fourth round in 27. Carolina gets a seventh round pick in 26 and a fifth round in 27. I think everybody's happy, Ocho. But like you said, those young receivers in Carolina, they impressed enough that Carolina was willing to move off a veteran presence, a guy that's steady, dependable you know exactly what you're going to get he's hard working he's he's a guy that can mentor the young guys but they said you know what these young guys are ready

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