free agency moves that have happened so far. Free agency
began yesterday at noon. Eastern. Don't call it by any
other name. Other than the start of free agency. The Lions
have added DJ Chark to a one-year deal,
shark clearly
out in Jacksonville after they added Cristian Kirk and say
Jones and the Lions looking to add competent players whenever
and wherever they can, they're looking for a certain type of
player as they
they try to reshape the team, you know, it's this cultural
reboot that they do. A few years. The problem is, it takes
time to get the players that fit what the new regime wants.
And hopefully ownership this time. We'll give
Brad homes and
why my blanket on Dan Campbell, I'm thinking, ultimately, it's
Chris Spielman.
Who's got a lot of influence there.
The Old School linebacker mentalities, what's coming
through that organization? They're trying to get guys who
fit that, that image that they're trying to project and
build in Detroit. Chris know, they are. They are indeed. A
charc is one of those guys
a little bit like, Evan engram.
We talked about earlier where
you go. Oh, I wonder he's got real potential.
All right, it hasn't worked out exactly the way. Maybe he
wanted to inject really got injured last year, but man two
years before that. He showed signs of being kind of special.
I mean, he's 63, he runs for three, he can fly
and it makes sense for
a team, the, you know, to your point the with, with Detroit,
you know, charcoal is Pretty Tough. He is. I've heard some
stories about him because Urban Meyer gave him a tough time.
Early in the year. In fact, I was told that one of
the reasons you got hurt
or four or ended his year. Was he came back to Earth Kingdom?
Yeah. Why I picked him know, he came back early because Meyer
was riding him so hard and he practiced even though he
shouldn't have. And that kind of finished off is his foot or
ankle for the year to where it was like, okay, he's done now,
so, you know, he fits that mold I think and they probably have
done their due diligence that way. Then I think when you talk
about the receiving Corps in general,
I'm gonna Rothstein Brown a guy that can do a little everything
slot and Outside, maybe more slot could leave Raymond's
there. He's a smaller guy. He is a slot guy. And now you got
a DJ shark is going to work outside and be you know,
the the size guy 50/50 guy and just
run by people. That's a good signing by them.
The
Philadelphia Eagles. We mentioned them earlier as it
relates to the Sean W and they added Hassan Redick who had
double-digit sacks last year. He had 11 last year. He had
twelve and a half in his contract year. With
the Arizona. Cardinals, does not stay in Carolina.
Lands in Philadelphia on a three-year
deal.
Thoughts on Redick joining the Eagles. Chris, how to be done.
I mean, the Eagles can't rush the passer. They don't like to
Blitz, they like to rush for. All right. I mean, we talked
about of the end of the year. They're a little bit simplistic
on that side of the ball,
you know, and they were towards the bottom of the league or let
me just double-check towards the bot. Second to last in
football and sacks. Last year, had to be done. Let alone they
run a scheme. That's
a no, it's a lot like the
Seattle. Emer it, although rooted in that, you know, Tony
Dungy, Tampa to cover three where they believe in,
you know, guys that can get on the edge get really wide,
the wide 9 technique and fly after the quarterback, and they have
not had that guy there in Philadelphia. So Redick, it's
two years in a row where
it's double-digit sacks. So, where we question, wait, what
position, did he and all that stuff? So now we just go, damn.
He's a legit Force, as a pass, rusher went to Temple. I'm sure
they have from pretty good history on them, and nobody is
Is a
guy that was an awesome signing by the eagles. They needed that
Rich Gannon defensive coordinator. There.
He needed that for his own defense and that scheme.
Jonathan Gannon, not Rich Gannon. Damn. Sorry, Rich
Gannon. Yeah, that would have been, that would be quite
a career in riches. Coaching Divas a great dinner. Yeah.
Here's a surprise, the Cowboys keep Demarcus Lawrence
a three-year deal with 30 million guaranteed. They find a way to
work it out and keep him around instead of letting him go
Chris. There
was a there was a fought he was on the way out.
Lawrence even though we've seen the production tail off and
there was injury last year. They're keeping him around.
Yeah, that big big for the Cowboys. I mean he's as we
talked about last week, he's,
you know, really there.
There there only Blue Chip defense alignment it where you
but but there has been the injury history. I was
interested to see if he might get out in the market and kind
of just see like, what's out there? Maybe, can I get more
than this?
But I think this is a guy that,
you know, he loves Dallas. He loves the Cowboys. He loves
the Jones family. He knows a restarts, not always that easy.
He also, I think he's pretty realistic. I don't know. He's
been injured and he hasn't maybe,
you know, given back his full as far as what he's been paid
the last few years, but it's a great job by the Cowboys
getting him. I mean if he's not on their demons align, it would
change around my thought of their defense in general.
He's a really good football player. Goodbye them.
Yeah, and I look the Cowboys
there. One of these teams at every year, is going to have
cap issues. People were like, why didn't they go out and sign
a bunch of guys, yesterday, got out of cap space? Yeah. Yeah.
Now boys, trying to hold together what they have, and
it's always smart. We haven't made this point yet this year,
but let me go ahead and make it now.
You see all this money, get thrown around early and
different teams, have different motivations for doing it. It's
always smarter to sit. And wait Ryan, let the market settle.
You're going to get better deals. Unless you're
the Steelers, getting Mitchell, true Biscay,
but you're typically going to get better deals. If you
Eight into next week. You get to the second phase. The money
isn't flowing is freely. That's where the sports teams going.
But but strategically last year, look at the Patriots that
you did it last year. Every now they
went out and spent. Oh, yeah, it's you said it right us
dependent on your team. There's some teams that have some, you
know, desperate needs. As far as like wait, we got to change
the way our whole perception of our team
or you know, hey, wait. We even though we're a good team. We
have a desperate need of this position
and we just, we To be a player day one. And I think we saw
that a little mixture of all that
yesterday with the NFL.
Yes, it's being one of them, the Chiefs, right? We're going
to talk about that. She was a team. We know defensive side of
the ball, right? Holding Frank Clark in place with a 2-year 29
million dollar deal. There were
there was a thought he was going to be gone
and Tyrann Mathieu undoubtedly will be gone. He didn't get
a new contract. He's a free agent. They go after safety
Justin Reid instead on a three-year Thirty one point
five million dollar deal trying to address some of
the weaknesses that they had last year. Hoping to get more out of
Frank Clark. He's still facing felony.
Weapons charges in California, but the league
will not be putting him on any type of suspension or paid
leave while that case goes forward. So, the Chiefs making
a bit of a calculated risk. They're they're going to have
Clark available and my guess is the contract accounts for
the possibility that things can go sideways for him
in that pending criminal case, but
you know that, hey,
in that conference, and in that division, you better be worried
about your defense or you're going to have to score 50
points. A game. Yeah. Lowered his cap. Number.
He's still a force to be reckoned with. I mean, he got
Off to a bad start last year because yes, legal issues that
a whole bunch of stuff going on,
but at the end of the year, he was phenomenal.
So I make sense. And I think also Mike with guys like this,
you know, I always think about something you bring up a lot.
It's just hey, they traded a lot and invested a lot in this
guy to get in there a few years ago
and he helped them get over the hump to get to the Super Bowl.
I don't think they want to let him out the door for, for
nothing.
So yeah, they ReSound a guy that's been a big part of what
they do there. I get that. And I'm not surprised to see them
make the move its safety.
You know, I know you heard me say, during the season a little
bit and all that, and I mean, Tyrone Matthews good. But him
being a part of the elite safety, top safety and football
conversation has come and gone.
And I don't say that,
you know easily because I really respect Tyrann Mathieu,
but but hey, you saw the end of the season two.
I mean, there's some games are where you'd go out and it was
you I didn't I don't remember him doing anything on
the field, you know, he's not the force. He once was read your In
his prime
more athletic, more explosive. I think it makes sense. As far
as the Chiefs are concerned,
and they're going to have some work to do to keep up with
the likes of the Chargers. The Broncos. Raiders have in store
Broncos, add
defensive tackle, DJ Jones on a three year. 3000, DL initial
reaction to that. What do you think that that to me is? It's
like he's one of the guys that's like one of those under
the radar. Again. I think
like, wow, difference, making type of pliers that you don't
call him a superstar but I bet you that hurt, Shanahan a Lynch
swatching DJ Jones walk out the door
and they can't pay everybody. They know they're going to pay
Nick Bosa soon. They got some issues. They got to deal with
here. They're going to pay Debo Samuel.
DJ Jones is like a phenomenal defensive tackle
phenomenal. Yeah, borderline star there.
He really is so that we get for the Broncos to get them
ten million dollars,
you know, EJ ever owed new defensive coordinator there.
He's going to be running that
and I'll Brandon Staley.
But system, it's a guy that can defensive tackle. Snub nose,
tackle can do it all. It's a really, really awesome player.
That's not a household name yet
Buccaneers keeping the band together. Carlton Davis
three-year 45 million dollar deal to stay put. They kept
Ryan, Jensen, the center. They're doing what they can to
hold it together. Now, the Tom Brady's coming back and, you
know, it's not, it's not, you know,
a gigantic deal for Davis, but it gives him a chance to get to
the market. Again in a few years and I see five-year
deals. I see three-year deals. I always want the Her term
because usually the stuff at the back end is fluff
and it's team. It's more Team
friendly because it doesn't reflect where the salary cap is
going to go. So if you can choose between shorter and
longer deal, take the shorter deal, always if you're
the player, that's right. I mean, any of these four or five year
deals, we probably should say it that way. I mean, the four
or five-year deals are really two
year, deals of the guaranteed money. And the rest of it.
You're going to have to play your ass off to earn those last
two or three years of the deal, you know,
like you did with JC Jackson right? Five year.
Two point five million dollars,
twenty million dollars a year. In the first two years. You got
40 million guaranteed. He's gonna have to earn the rest of
it and always wore or play. So good is renegotiated. Your
underpaid exact you play. So
good. You're underpaid right? That's probably why he took it.
He's probably going to take that angle a little bit and go.
Okay. Well, even if I don't buy my best, you know, okay, they
can they can handle, you know, 16 million dollars a year. It's
not
it's not a killer to them.
But yeah, like you said it it's usually set up that way.
Carlton Davis. So,
Todd Bowles, they want to Blitz.
They put their Corners in tough positions other than against
the Kansas City Chiefs and the Super Bowl. That's what they
do. Davis didn't have his best year, but he's got like,
you know, top of the market type talent in my opinion as
far as Island pure cover Corner that way
and hey Brady's back. They need guys like him certainly
among the many moves. The Packers have made in recent
days. Linebacker Devon Dre Campbell five year, 50 million
dollar deal. He gets paid, he sticks around and They need
their defense to be ready to step up and perform. It's got
to be a total team effort. If they're going
to get past the likes of
the Rams the Buccaneers the elite teams
in the NFC that have a knack for beating them in
the postseason. Yeah, right and he's the perfect guy for the DJ
sharks, the Evan engrams of the world to go. Look, here's a guy
that signed a one-year deal
and then kick some butt and now he's getting 10 million dollars
a year on a new football team and oh good for him, really
kind of like we found himself in his career.
Found the perfect spot there
and you know, you said it right Mike. There's there's nobody in
the middle of that defense of the linebacker position that
you know, anybody knows really
he's the only guy there he's clearly their best player in
the middle of the defense. He's long and big and he can still
run. So good signing by the Packers.