to Odell Beckham jr. About joining the team. He was on
their radar screen after he was cut by the Cleveland Browns,
the Patriots were trying to get him. He didn't seem to be
interested. I don't think
he's interested in the Patriots. Without Tom Brady
there, or at least he didn't believe. Sufficiently in Mac
Jones. You want you want to have confidence that someone's
gonna throw you the football when you're open because he had
just lived through what it means to play with
someone who doesn't throw you the ball accurately.
Italy or a door opening door opening. Yeah, so I know
getting open is just a very small part of what you're
trying to do. Is it receiver? Hey, I'm open, Where's
the football? Get me the football.
So I think that, that may have been an impediment to Odell
Beckham jr. And obviously the torn ACL, who knows when he's
going to be good to go last time around in the same knee
where he has a torn ACL. Now, it took 11 months to get
cleared at a time when we're taking for granted, the notion
that all torn ACL
surgery rehab, you'll be fine.
Yeah, they give they give
why my blanking on the name of the guy, Chris God. And I knew,
if I talked long enough, it would come to me Chris Godwin
in Tampa, the give me three years. Sixty million dollar
deal.
Barely two months removed from ACL surgery. So that's the big
question with b.j. And,
you know, as the Rams, slow play it and just kind of
everyone assumes, the Rams are going to get him. All it takes
is one team to say. We'll go ahead and spend the money now.
We'll make the move now. We'll do what we have to do now,
to get obj. Stay away from the Rams
and it wouldn't surprise me. If someone makes a strong pitch
and and understands what they're getting
and that they're not going to get anything from him early in
the year, but they may get a payoff.
Yeah, come December or January or in 2023 if they do
a multi-year deal. I feel like ties going to go to the Rams,
write anything like that to where you know, to piggyback
off of what you said.
They they Whoever comes in and wants to do about
Odell Beckham jr. I would think you're going to have to.
Yeah, may impress them,
you know, shock them a little bit. If you want to, you know,
do that, especially, you know, if you're a team that's you
know, kind of off the off the cuff as far as Super Bowl
Contender.
That's for sure.
I would think oh Dell is going to look just like you did last
year the place that makes sense to where he can hit the ground,
running the team's good. He knows the quarterback and
the offense. Throw the
Ball a lot and that he's going to get his touches as you
explained earlier when he is open and
and try to play it like that. I would. And I understand them
not wanting to do the Patriots last year. That's a little
dicey rookie quarterback, you know, the kind of figure life
out still after Tom Brady.
But yeah, I kind of sit here like you do Mike. I think it's
the Rams I would imagine it's going to be the Rams and
if it's going to be somebody else, I imagine it being,
you know, again almost a teams that were involved in the
Stations with him last year,
Green Bay, Kansas City,
you know, hey, you want to come here for the low, you know, we
don't need you, this second Green Bay kind of needs them.
But Kansas City and those kind of dreams can got to go. We
don't need you, this second get healthy.
Just try to get here, you know, around Thanksgiving, and then
we'll try to go win that damn, Super Bowl. I would think it
would have to be something like that to steal Odell Beckham,
Juniors, mind, and heart from the Rams. Remember what it was
last year that ultimately got him in l.a. What was it? They
showed me. The love the love. Without all
the stops, right? It's good old-fashioned recruiting.
I think we lose sight of that in the NFL. Yeah, because our
people, there's, you know, especially because look, you
never. Well, you recruit free agent, you know, how to recruit
draft picks. You just tell them you're
coming here. Who cares? You recruit us. We don't recruit you,
but getting the human beings involved getting people to
express
in an interpersonal way. We want you. It's not just a cold
Financial negotiation. It's phone calls, its text messages,
its public statements. We want this. We love this guy. We need
this guy
that can have an impact.
So if you want to try to get him away from the Rams, it
isn't just money. You got to have that same full-court
press, you don't have people who are excited. And maybe it's
hard to Muster that when, you
know, the guys not going to play for. Who knows how many
more months. Hey, we can't. Well, yeah, we love it. But but
you know what, there should be people out there doing that.
I know that free agency tends to focus on
the guys who are ready to go.
But I'd like to thank somebody out there. Could take a step
back and say, you know,
this guy could really help us when he's healthy.
And guys, get injured all the time. And we take chances on
injured, guys all the time. Let's go do the full court
press on Odell Beckham jr. Let's offer more than what we
think. The Rams can pay ya,
and let's let's mobilize our troops to make him feel like we
really wanted because we do. Let's go do it. Let's not play,
you know,
Cloak and Dagger or or take it. Lowers or beep, you know, to
guarded in. What we say. Let's just go get this guy. That's
how you're going to get him. Anybody who wants him. That's
the road map. We saw it last year. The Rams provided it to
us. Yeah. No they did. I don't disagree with you there either.
And really, I feel like in
my heart or, you know, my brain a little bit
that it will happen at some point.
I would imagine teams. Maybe want to let Odell
get a little further down the road to gauge, how
the recovery's going. I would imagine that's part of the
the conversation if you're talking about Odell and adding them to
your football team,
definitely, but I think you're right.
He's, he's been in two places, you know, prior to the Rams
where he felt like, they didn't want them at the end or
the love. Wasn't there, love is very real for sure. Let alone
the
quarterback play and touches, we know that,
but I'm with you Mike, if I'm a team that's kind of like set up
and go.
Hey, we're pretty good here.
We're not like desperate. We're in decent. Salary cap shape.
Okay. Let's add a little icing on the top. Let's see if we can
maybe and I'll give him a contract and make him open up
his eyes and go. Hey, come here
and do something.
I certainly, I wouldn't be afraid to toy around with that
idea, you know, like
again, like, if I'm a team like Buffalo
that those are the teams I'm talking about like, Hey, we're
pretty good. I'm good. We're hey, but man, if we got you
here? Whoa, watch out. It could be scary and we don't need you,
man.
Going to rush you before you're ready to go.
But yes, this is team like that. A Team like the Rams,
a team like Kansas City now with mvs and JuJu there to
where it's not. Desperation a lot. Like the Rams were last
year before Robert, Robert Woods got hurt who subsequently
got hurt the day after they signed them and they really
needed Odell after that.
We've talked in the past about the Rams, all in Tendencies and
will other teams do it. And we've seen some other teams,
make some trades big trades, but
I remember saying at one point because we talked about how
the bills didn't make moves when they could have last year and
I said if they had Von Miller and Odell Beckham jr. They'd be
the ones
that have their yeah. Prints all over, right? The freshly
minted, Lombardi trophy. Well, they now have Von Miller. So
why not go ahead and finish the job. Brandon Bean go get Odell
Beckham jr.
Wouldn't that be something?
That would be something because they're one of the teams that
fits the profile. We don't need him right now, right, we can
let him recover.
He's a good locker room presents. The guys loved him.
Let's get him in here
and and come December. January
February.
We get the payoff. Yeah. We have Odell Beckham jr. And more
importantly, more importantly, a team. We may come across in
the postseason,
does not have Odell Beckham jr. We got a green, we all have to
worry about him and we've got him they have to worry about.
I did that to
me is the type of team and then what I'd be scared about, if
I'm the Rams to is time. Lingers here is something you
already brought up. And what's that
ring ring? Oh, hey,
Odell Tom Brady's on the phone.
He wants to know if you'll come down to Tampa and play for for
peanuts. You get to play with Brady and maybe when the Super
Bowl. Oh, yes, sir. Mr. Brady. I'll be down there. I'd be
scared of that if I'm
them at me. To me, it just did that scary situation,
but I don't know,
you know, again, Tampa with Chris Godwin there, waiting for
that ACL injury. They might want to put resources into that
right there. But that's certainly on my radar where
the fact of we know the love o Dell has her Tom Brady
and there's been flirtation
and years past there was flirtation and Brady's last year
in New England, or maybe it was earlier than that. It was 20
1999 and was writing, right? Yeah. Browns, Right light in
New England, right? And it was the whole
weeklong. It was Odell Beckham jr. Saying New England, this
new ink. Yes, right. There we go. Being Cleveland. And it was
a long talk between the two of them. Yeah, and you know,
one of the things last year, the receiver position for
the Buccaneers, we just thought it was as stacked as it could
possibly be. Yeah,
but Scotty Miller fell off. Antonio Brown literally fell
off. Yeah. Tyler Johnson showed up over
overweight and out of shape us at over shape, and out of weight,
overweight, and out of shape. That would have been a symbolism.
Wait now to shape and jail and Darden there, waiting for him.
But now Browns gone and you,
you know, Russell gauge is there
they signed him from Atlanta writers. Godwin a question mark
as he recovers. But
yeah, they're not real right there. But but your hey, look
we've already not to not to plow old ground, but we
recently have witnessed
the power of Tom Brady, in Tampa Bay.
We think he's got some influence,
hit down
just a little bit influence into. Tampa Bay. If he wants.
Oh BJ, they'll find some money to make it happen, especially
like you said,
he would take less
if he finally gets a chance to play with Tom Brady. And if he
feels like the Rams aren't doing the right thing by him,
because I've said all along, they need to do the right thing
by. Oh, no, Beckham jr. And pay him
for what he did last year, and pay him, even though they're
not going to have him on the field because he helped them
Get Over the Top. If he gets a little sideways about that, all
the more reason to go to Tampa Bay because right now it's
the Rams in
In the NFC. Yes, 100%. I mean it's it is them and
of course we got Green Bay sitting there
who needs it, but I don't think they have the luxury
to be able to wait for Odell
the 49ers. They're stacked. We know that I don't think they're
going to be looking for that tub applier, but for Odell for
what he's looking at. Yeah, the Rams, the Bucks, they make
a lot of sense till they do
and be interested to see where this goes, but
I think at some point here,
you know, to what we're talking about.
Out the, the conversations and things will heat up around
Odell. It might not just beat it, might be till the end of
June. And I mean, might be one of those kind of guys, right?
Mike or
maybe right before training camp,
where it's okay. Hey, hey, we're getting close in here.
All right, you know, let's let's round out the roster. We
need a receiver. Somebody else to
help us out down the road or whatever.
You know that to me, is the time. I look to Odell Beckham
jr. Probably. Being on the radar for some of these teams.
I got one more. Yeah, to keep an eye on. Ya
blow that gjallarhorn.
Where's Kevin O'Connor? Where to Kevin O'Connor. I know?
Yeah. Yeah, he come from right. And what about Justin.
Jefferson and obj? Yeah,
you put obj and JJ and Adam thielen? You kidding me. I'd be
pretty damn good. That would be
long as you can block for Kirk Cousins. You got a high-octane
offense. Yes, you do. I you keep dreaming there Slugger
though. I don't think that one's happening.
All I'm saying is Kevin O'Connell. The new coach of
the Vikings came from the Rams. And if the Rams are going to slow
play at the Rams are going to screw around but that would be
a team that falls into this category of.
Yeah, they could they could wait need them right away and
wait, right. Right. Question is, the question is, will they
be, you know, for an eleven when
that's exactly right? Exactly. Right. And you'll be asking for
Minnesota to draft a new quarterback by the, you know,
November so that might not be the best situation. I already
am asking.
So be I stand corrected. Sorry.