the Jacksonville Jaguars, they spent like drunken Sailors,
which is fitting because this is all money that comes
directly from shot cons. Superyacht maintenance budget
of at
least a million dollars a week. I would assume
money is being diverted buying your way out of
this function after all the crap. They went through. Last year.
Sometimes is what you have to do. And ideally, in free
agency. What you want to be able to do is win the ties. You
want to be able to put your offer on the table. It's a
Same as someone else's and the player chooses you.
The Jaguars don't have that luxury. If they want to make
their team better. They have to spend in the short term and
spend they did, they snatch Brandon scherff away from
Washington
tag, two straight years by the Commander's
they pick up Christian Kirk. A huge deal for the former
Cardinals. Receiver. They get say Jones the former Raiders
bills receiver. They get Evan engram, the tight end from
the Giants who was getting some Buzz. Wow, what receiver in
Buffalo? I mean it but
the hits On and on for the Jaguars yesterday and we've
seen this before, we know that this isn't going to make a team
into a contender,
but it could take a team
from
the bottom rungs of the league and start the process of
popping them in the right direction. Yes, that's
the right thing. I mean, it gives them. Yeah, it gives it gives
the team. Hope the locker room, a new feel,
it gives the whole city, a new feel. Wait.
This isn't the same Urban Meyer team and when you think about
Urban Meyer and Jacksonville the first word that Comes to
your head is dysfunctional.
What a what a crap show that was? I mean, all those things
come to your head, this kind of washes that away. It gives you
a new Vibe for a new football team. Let alone, I mean,
damn some players there.
I mean, sure, Fizz we've talked about one of the best guards in
football. Yes. Have been a little banged up here the last
few years. So you just got to get him to stay healthy, but
definitely, one of the best guards in football. And then
you get into
Cristian Kirk, you know,
a receiver who's dangerous, can do a lot of
Things can play the slot can play outside. Burn you deep.
He's perfect. Doug. Peterson's getting guys together. That
make it look like they're trying to redo what they did in
Philadelphia in 2017,
big overpowering offensive line,
you know, some scary receivers and then a tight end and Evan
engram to me. This was one of the steals of free agency, Evan
engram for 1 year 9 million. I'm a little surprised by
the deal in general, but he's got his Zach Earth's
but this guy's even more talented.
And oh, yes, I think he was on a lot of people's radar because
there's not many people
on planet Earth. Like, Evan engram that are built the way
he is and can run the way he is. He's got a little bit of
a bad rep in the New York area, because he drops him, big
passes, but wow, and then you talk about what they did on
the defensive side. I mean,
Jacksonville one, the first day of free agency and it wasn't
just stupid spending just to go. Like we're going to get two
stars of the stars and just throw out money to do it. That
way. It made sense to me
and made sense for the how they want to play and what they need
for their new coaching staff.
The fact that Evan engram signed a one-year 9 million
dollar deal. So, early into the process or agreed to terms.
Yeah, sign as of Wednesday at 4:00 p.m. Eastern got to get
the nomenclature, right? That tells me now, obviously
we know that tampering happens.
He knew what the long-term offers were and he didn't like
any of them. So he decided, I'll take nine million for
a year. Try to have the kind of season that puts me in position
next year, right, break the bank. You usually see guys do
that. Later. Are in the process. But angra, my
exhausted. The market on long-term deals and new. His
best play was a one-year deal,
and he apparently thinks they're
going to have something special
in Jacksonville. Special enough for him
in his connection, with Trevor Lawrence
to have the kind of season that will make him very attractive.
Next year in free agency. He's making that, that bet, I guess
his other teams were willing to do that one, your deal. He goes
to Jacksonville,
and maybe it's as simple as Jacksonville, kicked in
a little It more than someone else that she would Hills,
right? He's consciously doing the one year and then the hope
to get back next year and get more than one year and get
a lot more than 9 million. Yeah.
And has a chance to. I think Evan engram, has Superstar
potential. He does, you know, he had some big drops up here
in the New York area and it led to a,
just a bad perception and Aura around him.
This gives them a fresh start
and like you said,
it gives Trevor Lawrence a fresh start.
I mean, what they did.
It gives him a Fighting Chance,
you know, Doug Peterson him together. I mean now you pair
Cristian Kirk is a Jones and I would Lavista Chenal. Marvin.
Jones is still. There you go. Wow, that's that's pretty damn
good.
And now that at Evan engram, let's not forget Travis ET. N
is going to be back from you know injury let alone we know
James Robinson's already damn good. That's a pretty good
group right there. Right off the bat. You just talked about
that and then
hey the defensive side is the one that's not getting enough
love, in my opinion. I mean, Mean
Fado Kasi Foley fought a Kasi from the Jets.
I mean, wow player.
No, I mean, disrupter can get after the quarterback. That's
a big move on the defensive side of the ball. I mean, he got
the new defensive coordinator from the Bucks and now he got
a middle linebacker
who I think was severely underrated in the eyes of
the media and for you Asad, Ali Khan from from Atlanta
to where they kind of got there,
his version of a Devon white. Now, a guy that could just run
around and kill people and played middle linebacker.
Backer so Jacksonville, I think answered a lot of questions in
their roster yesterday
and I think even when a long way to change in the culture of
the team, a little bit with these type of moves
for years, 72 million for Cristian Kirk the deal is worth
up to 84 million. That's a twelve million dollar incentive
package. It's 3 million per year, based upon receiving
yards, say
they haven't released the numbers that said,
sometimes the incentive triggers are so high that it's
impossible to reach. Here's a joke, Cristian Kirk. Kirk Kirk
Cousins, guys named Kirk securing generational wealth
off of desperate franchises.
I think it's two very different circumstances. But at the same
time that's a lot of money for Kirk Cristian. Kirk Christian
Kirk's. Never had 1,000 yard receiving season and he's
getting four years. Seventy two million.
How surprised were you buy that investment in a guy
who you're making
that that payment based on potential and expectation. Not
past production. Yeah. I mean, that's what they're doing.
They're paying for
For what they've seen in the field and going, you know what,
we think you got, you know, more to offer here. That's what
they're there. They're basically paying them for and
I think there was a guy here that
there was a market for
you know, it Heats. This is he's got a lot of Versatility
to his game, you know, he's one of those guys that you could
give him reverses and speed sweeps and toss the ball to
him. He's one of those wide receivers again that's
you know, receiver that's built a little bit like a running
back. Let alone he can do the slot wide receiver. Julian
Edelman.
Stuff and has enough strength and and and pure speed on
the outside to where you go. He can win one-on-one. So for the Doug
Peterson offense and what he asks of receivers, I think it
makes a lot of sense
I do and then you get as a Jones is more of a route Runner
with a little sighs, you know, can do the intermediate routes,
you know, that's where, you know, it makes a lot of sense.
So, I mean I was a little surprised by the
contract as far as how expensive it was, but I think
we'll also look at And go well, hey a guy like Robert Woods,
he's making 16 and a half million dollars or some other
receivers in the market where I go,
Cristian Kirk is more explosive and dangerous. And let's not
forget. He was stuck on an offense that you know, was new
and was featuring had some other weapons that they
featured in a course feature, DeAndre Hopkins early in his
career to where he got the majority of the footballs and
now he'll be the feature guy.
The four-year 72 million dollar deal for Kirk prompted,
a reaction from Debo Samuel who laughed at the projection that
he'll get based upon what Kirk received, four years,
567 million dollars
up to up to that include that that up too.
That's with all potential incentives up to is the key.
And that's one of the things to keep an eye on. When you see
these reports
up to means the guys never going to make that much. You
can pull. Wherever you want in the back end of up to there's
incentives and there's sometimes they require the guy
to be the Super Bowl
MVP every single year. I mean, it's ridiculous. Some of
the Clauses that are in there to get the up to amount of
a contract.