you know, we kind of hit on it and how they've dropped
the ball and using them a little bit.
I just wonder who the teams that are going to be out of
play to go, get a DK met Kat, you know, that that would be
the other interesting thing, too. I mean, you hit on
the Jets, I would think there were team that's interested in
the conversation.
We've seen what Lamar kind of flirt with DK Metcalfe on
social media.
They certainly can do. I know I don't see that happen. I'm
going to do it. They're not going to pay him. I can't
imagine either. I'm just going. So then you got
the Browns. We know they're looking for another wide receiver,
you know, but can they pay him? I don't know.
Colts. There are team that I look at and go they need
another weapon on that side of the ball. They need another
big time, you know, receiver and I flip over to the NFC Mike
and that's where that I go. Uh,
okay. Who be really willing to give up a lot to go
get him there. And I don't see a ton of teams that can really
come to mind. Or like jump out here in the in the NFC at least
that I feel like would make a play or try to make a
big play for him.
But hackers in the Chiefs. I mean, I tried
I'm sure Shawn picks, but that Packers could have kept of on
two. Atoms Chiefs could kept Tyree kill if they didn't want
to pay the guys already had. Actually that's another side of
this right. You gotta give up the multiple first-round
picks potentially and then you got to make the guy happy
because he's otherwise going to be destined for the franchise
tag or free agency next year. And if you didn't want to pay
the guy that you had
what's going to make you, suddenly pay the guy
that you don't have the guy that you don't know
that you're going to pay him on the way through the door.
Unless Aaron Rodgers.
Is making some major power play behind the scenes and we don't
know about the Packers would not be in this. I've seen this
chatter, will the Packers plus 500. Yeah, right, like, what
the hell, have they
done this? Why would they do it? Right?
That's first of all, when if they ever done it, right? And
second, why would they do it right after they sent Davante
Adams? Their best player, not named Aaron, Rodgers to the Las
Vegas radar. Yeah. Agreed agreed. It it again. I, you
know, I don't think a lot of like guys like DK Medcalf
Ernesto. I'm going to be banging the door to go like,
oh, I want to go play in Green Bay and then and And, you know,
again, what's going to play in the
the factor, there is d.k. Metcalf's gonna go. Wait. Do
I really want to sign a six-year contract with the Packers? And
then, like Aaron Rodgers is gone after a year or two, you
know, so that that will play into that to I'm with you.
I don't think Green Bay gets this is not in their
DNA. So I know I've seen that chatter to and I'm going to
like what like what does Green Bay ever made a move like this.
There's no way and like you said, why wouldn't they have
just paid Davante Adams? Or
you know, I know they wanted to, they tried to pay him.
They should have passed the Ravens. Yeah, as to the Raven,
right? This is a great opportunity for Eric to cost of
the GM of the team to text or call Lamar Jackson and say
hey Lamar, one of the reasons we can't go get DK Metcalf and
on a contract because yet so it's impossible us to do all
this stuff under the cap. Right? When we have these high
bloated numbers that we're currently expecting
for you next year in the following year because we're
looking at franchise tags.
Not the early contract cap numbers that you would have if
you would just sit down with us and do a contract. Yeah. Yeah,
yeah.
I know.
I had something. I was going to say there and I blanked out as
I was writing down a note. But but I guess the other thing
I wanted to bring up. Mike is just the yeah. I am interested
to know well what other teams are going to be involved in
the in the chatter for him. Because I
said I said you're in the NFC to Mike. I look at it and just
go and Pete you can help out too. Is there a team that we
look at? That would make sense to what? Wait, what? They're
going to try to
have a need of the position and really make sense for them.
Do it right now and I'll again I know there's a lana we know
they need a top-end receiver, but I don't think they're like
gonna be in the market for. Hey,
let's we're going to rebuild, both send all our picks out
the window and and go send a bunch of money to DK Metcalf. I don't
think they're going to be in that conversation but there's
no team that really jumps out to me
and the NFC right now, where I go. Ooh that makes sense or
I could see them making that play. Anybody jump out to you.
Not really. Yeah. Really Pete's mentioned in the Buccaneers
that they're not going to do that. That they're not making
that move. They can't pay him along with no Todd win and what
they're paying my Kevin 10 Mike Evans.
And yeah. No, I um,
we talked about obj yesterday. That's a far more likely
outcome for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. But look, this is
a big move and I think the Jets make the most sense by far and
if I'm DK Metcalfe and I start looking at Zach Wilson tape,
especially at BYU. I didn't get a chance to do much of it last
year in New York, but the stuff that made you put Zach Wilson
above Trevor Lawrence once DK Metcalf sees that I know Okay.
Yeah, here's a guy who can get me the football right down
the field, wherever I may be again. I know the Jets got a, you
know, kind of a bad reputation
right now, right? But
man, I think there's a lot of things going in the right
direction there. I do
like the moves, they made in the free agency, the things
they did in the draft last year.
I wouldn't be surprised that the Jets are a pain in the butt
and like you said, they're the offense. Hey, they know how to
get the lafleur's going to know how to get the ball to
the guy. I mean his brother is God.
At the ball to Davante Adams. The guy, he learned from
Shanahan gets the ball to Debo Samuel. Do you like your point
earlier on? So
that that's a part of this to Mike? Here's another thing.
I want to throw out into this and I meant to bring this up, when
we were talking about the Saints Eagles trade, but kind
of just popped in my mind. Once again, we got the DK Metcalf
and there's been rumors of this.
Like,
what do you think? Where do you think the Saints status is with
Michael Thomas that adverse Seaver. Do you think there's
a chance? They'll dangled him out there by any chance to
Him or do anything there?
There was rumors like that and then it kind of
I haven't heard anything but I never said a part of me that
feels like he's going to come up again at some point during
the draft process.
Well,
there have been reports. They've died down considerably
because he's just been a non-factor in New Orleans. But
back in 2020.
Yeah, the year that started with him getting that fluke.
Ankle injury late in the week. 1 win over the Tampa Bay
Buccaneers, and I remember as we were getting ready for
football. Night in America. That sounds like
I saw it come out of the corner of my eye. It's like Michael
Thomas is hurt and we had no idea how bad it was going to
be. He's he hasn't played since then,
he's hardly fit all. If he has, he hasn't played very much
and he had surgery in the offseason. They were upset that
he waited too long to do it and there's been this this friction
that he became a diva, once he got paid and you can't rule out
the possibility
that the Saints are looking at this as something they
potentially move on from us. His contractor like now
it's going to be you know, you're going to take some
some dead money
to do this if you're going to move on from him. So and Mickey
Loomis has shown that, he knows how to create cap space out of
nothing else he has but
but but what do you get for him at this point? That's
the problem, huh? It's not like trading DK. Metcalf for Tyree
killer Davante Adams. Who's gonna give you anything
significant at this point for Michael Thomas, Urban Meyer's,
not around anymore
to come overpay for him, which he may have done last year to
bring back. And you know, together himself with a guy
from Ohio State so I don't know who would want him. You're
taking a hell of a
risk. If you take on Michael Thomas.
I almost feel like they recognize
what can we really do.
They got to like pay them all this money. Yeah, let's let's
see. Let's see if the guys ready to play and if it doesn't
work out then
then you figure out what you're going to do with him after this
season, but I agree with you. It's been quiet in the past.
It's looked like they were fed up with them. Right, but maybe
they've had kind of a meeting of the minds
and Dennis Allen.
Orderly, want to go see him? And I think Alan has talked
about that openly just kind of clear the air and see where
things were. If it became an issue between Thomas and
Peyton.
Now that Peyton's gone.
Maybe they can try to get a clean slate and try to coax
something out of Michael Thomas and get a reset on
the relationship. But I think you have to do that because no one,
no one is going to give you a major. No draft compensation
hall
for Michael Thomas at this point. Why would that
I wouldn't think so either? You're right there in a little
bit of a like, they gotta kind of Put him out there, rebuild
his reputation,
show everybody. He's healthy,
you know, and then also
kind of, you know,
squash those rumors that we've all heard
that. Yeah, Diva, or whatever else issues down there, with
the Saints after the contract sign. Again. I don't know how
true they are. But I know there's a lot of people that in
the NFL that feel that way. So,
alright. I just wanted to bring that up. I just thought it was
interesting. I thought it played into the conversation
with DK Metcalfe, a little bit and I thought about it
yesterday with Saints made that trade thinking like, well,
maybe they're going
to trade Michael Thomas and get a few more assets to make
a play and do something like that. I got, I got another
reason for it. And I had his contract up, and the numbers
looked screwy to me.
They restructured his contract in late February,
the cap hit would be way too much to trade him.
So they're not going to trade, can't do it. That they crossed
that bridge right in late February. They would be looking
at 38 million
in cap charges because they converted his
Salary.
The most that they could write to a signing bonus it, spreads
it out. So if you do it now it all comes flowing back along
with everything else and you got a big problem. You got
a big cap charging and take this year
and and that they would be very hard-pressed to pull it off.
And when you look at the fact, you're not going to get a lot
of form in return. I think it looks like they're going to try
to make it work with Michael Thomas
with a new head coach.
and we'll see,
maybe this is it for Michael Thomas, but but we wouldn't add
into the