to a deal for Kyler
Murray? We've heard nothing, we've heard nothing
but that doesn't mean they're not working toward making it
happen, you know? A lot of times what will occur is
especially when there's been some ugliness in the media,
some back and forth. Its may be unfortunate for everyone
Mutual understanding. We're just going to
we're going to give it a rest here. We're going to stop.
We're not going to say anything more Gentleman's Agreement? No!
More talking. Let's just focus on getting a deal done. It,
it really Shouldn't take that much time. Now, the problem is
getting the two sides to agree on a value.
What's the value? Where does Calamari land in that range? 50
million to 30 million, top 10, quarterbacks 5230. Where does
he land? That's going to be the challenge, but I think that
both sides very motivated, get done before training camp
starts and if it doesn't, I
think what we see with Kyler Murray is a hold in like TJ W
last year, shows up participates in meetings, those
through all the mental aspects of getting rid of The season
but does not set foot on the field until he gets
his contract and look how it worked out
for. T.j. what you got? The contract and he had
a spectacular season in 2021.
Clever moniker 11 if the NFL finds the Texans did something
wrong with DeShaun Watson? What kind of punishment consequences
could they face? What's the worst case scenario? I first of
all, you have to
believe that the NFL cares, the NFL is going to do something
about it. Is the NFL
going to take a story? That's already dominated. The NFL news
cycle for 15 months and make it even bigger by going after
the Texans
for failing to nip. This thing in the bud when they had
the chance. You know, a lot of times I think that the NFL
looks the other way
on violations of the rules because it doesn't want
the controversy that comes from it. It doesn't want to have to
stand up and say to the world. Look at this
corruption, among our 32 franchises, hey, we found another team
that is doing something, it shouldn't have done. There's
another team doing something, it shouldn't have done. How
about that. Team over there doing something? It shouldn't
have done at a certain point. You reach a critical mass and
that's when this doesn't just do a drive-by
for the Commander's, it shows up permanently
and it's determined to regulate everything about you because it
comes to the conclusion that it's not just one or two teams.
Everybody is doing something, they shouldn't be doing, and
some would say that in the NFL, it's some level. Every team is
doing something, it shouldn't be doing.
But there isn't the enforcement mechanism in place to expose it
or the will to do so because of where it possibly could lead.
Another one from Arizona, UK without an agent, can Omar
Jackson's contract, be anything other than Team friendly. Now,
it can't look. The Ravens can go so far. The other way to
create a contract that
insulates, Lamar Jackson from any criticism,
And the team from any criticism. See that's
the problem.
Who's going to get criticized? If this deal comes off as being
grossly Team friendly, is going to be the Ravens for taking
advantage of Lamar Jackson, just like the 49ers took
advantage of Richard Sherman. And the Broncos took advantage
of Russell Oak Room when they were represented by themselves.
That's the risk think of anything
to do this the right way. The Ravens almost have to overdo it
with Lamar Jackson.
And then if they overdo it, they're going to get criticized
for
for allowing a player without an agent to get more from them
than a player with an agent would get, it's a tough spot,
but there's definitely a risk for the Ravens.
If they end up coming out of this with a deal where people
say, wow, wow, the Ravens really took advantage of their
franchise quarterback, who they supposedly love, but they
didn't love them at the bargaining table.
They got the best possible deal, they could for them,
which means not the best possible deal for
Him.
Boy,
JP a football. Mr. Bond. Well can you talk about the shifter
store you posted today? And explain why you still getting
breaking news? Even with all the turmoil. Look, here's how
it goes and
It's a very simple
process and it's laid out in the item that was posted by Ben
Strauss. The Washington Post. Schefter is managed to
create.
Systematically
over a course of time with his Twitter platform
as the primary vehicle for this.
A machine that is powerful enough to allow him,
to use that to leverage teams,
and agents, and coaches, and whoever
Four Scoops. Hey, look at what I can do for your news. Why
would you give the news to this one? Or this one or this? When
you give it to me,
I break it. Look at all the Impressions.
Look at all the people that are going to see it. You want
maximum exposure for your news, you give it to me, so he
convinces someone to do it. He gets
Scoops, as he gets more Scoops, it continues to build as it
continues to build. He leverages it for more scoops
and it goes on and on and on.
And along the way, every once in a while, you just have to
tolerate the possibility that in your effort to take that
scoop to take that information and turn it into
the end result, which is looking for is to be first
in front of everyone else.
There may be some missteps, there may be some mistakes. You
may step in a little poop on the,
on the way to the Finish Line, you won the race, but you're
going to spend the rest of the day with a twig.
Digging it in anybody who grew up in the 70s or 80s and
you know, when kids actually went outside can relate to
finding the right size twig that can dig
All that out of here,
tread on the bottom of your shoes. Anyway,
the other side of it is every once in a while, just kind of
have to hold your nose,
you got to hold your nose and take one for the benefit of
the greater good
post. A self-serving tweet a quid pro quo, something that
carries the water for a player, or an agent, like the Dalvin
cook and DeShaun Watson tweets. And chapter says, oh, I wasn't
carrying anyone's water. Of course, you're gonna say that
that's the first rule
of carrying water.
You never admit that you're carrying water,
but to the trained eye, it's
You'll see the tweets
when he has an agenda other than just breaking news.
You see it, you know what it is? People who pay attention,
know what he's doing.
It's all about making sure that he is
at the front of the line as often as possible
to get that information five minutes before it's announced
vast majority of what he reports.
Is five minutes before. It's otherwise announced
and I mentioned while Simmons experience.
When he worked with either the Rams of the Panthers who work
with both teams. He mentioned it on PFT p.m. if I had, to
guess, I'd say it was the Rams, but I don't know the idea that
it was all engineered.
Okay, we're going to announce this move.
Here's how it's going to go.
We're going to tell
schefter about it. He's going to report it, and five minutes
later we're going to announce, okay? That's going to be the
mechanism here.
Because with nearly 10 million Twitter followers, you going to
get more
attention. If you give it to him
before, you put it on your own platform, why waste
the opportunity to Curry favor
with someone like schefter.
And break it yourself. When you can give him, the five-minute
heads up and what's it matter? It's 5 minutes. The other side
of it too. And I don't,
I don't know how relevant this is because chefs are just not
in that business of being critical
of anyone. Every once in a while, you'll see him retweet
something. That is critical that was posted by one of his
colleagues, but it's never his voice. Never his opinion, he
has minimal opinions,
but
one of the reasons
to single someone out and give them a scoop. Is you think that
part of the quid pro quo isn't just hey, maybe once in a while
you'll tweet something
it's good for me. May be bad for you, but good for me, but also
Leave me alone. It's kind of like protection.
Insurance against being harassed and harangue by
a given reporter. Hey, you know, if we give you that scoop, we
kind of expect to look the other way when we step in crap,
that's part of the game, too.
So I've been in it for 21 years, I know how it works, and
I know it when I see it and it's obvious that the cook
tweet but Watson tweet
That's a byproduct,
a conscious decision made
to periodically. Put yourself in position to be criticized.
All in the name of the greater, good of feeding the Beast,
it continues to grow and grow and grow. And that is his most
valuable asset the Twitter page, a Twitter ever goes away.
We have to find another platform but
You take away that 10 million, follower
fire, hose that levels blank field dramatically, and
it causes him to go back to
square one or close to it and do it all over again. All right.
Jr. The Bossman, do you think the NFL will ever go to
a 20-game schedule with no preseason, increase?
Meaningful, inventory for TV partners and fans, especially
PSL, and season ticket holders, I can't rule it out.
I think 18 is the limit for now,
but I think it's some point. They'll make a push to go to 19
or 20, probably not in my lifetime probably years from
now,
but there's too much money to be made through football games
that are meaningful. Why are we staging games? That are meaning
less? Let's have games that are meaning
full. When you consider how much money you can make from
them, not just TV rights, but gambling real-time
micro betting as the game unfolds. I guess, people could
do it for pre-season to but
Got a different feel.
You're going to have
a much greater likelihood of drawing people into place, bets
from the beginning of the game to the end of the game. When
it's a game that counts, hey, we're doing it anyway. We got
20 games. Anyway,
that was the
excuse. They use to go from 16 to 17. Hey we're already
playing 20 games, you've always played 20 games back in the 70s
before they went to 16 games, it was 14 regular season games
in six preseason games, how messed up is that? But that's
what
it took to get your guys ready because the end of the season,
they went home, they threw the cleats in the mudroom. Umm, and
they
didn't do anything. They
watch bowling and a pork rinds and smoke cigarettes.
They didn't stay in shape, they needed that time to get ready
for the 14-game grind. Now they don't need that. I mentioned TJ
water earlier
He needed nothing to be ready
for Week 1, nothing. He was already
ready for week one, so I could see it. I just don't think it's
gonna happen any time soon.
Jeremy died. Who is on the NFL executive? Committee is just
too many strong enough to get Snider to sell the team.
Also intrigued by your background. What is directly
behind you. In did mrs. PFT help with your
setup. I don't have the list in front of me, the current
members of the NFL executive committee, and I think that
question comes from the reality, that the Constitution
and bylaws would allow
the
commissioner if he so desires to refer to the executive
committee, the possibility, for some Dana Snyder, sell
the team. I still don't think they're ever going to do it.
I don't think they want the fight. I think they know he
will fight and fight and fight, and he will sue them anywhere.
And everywhere
in order to try to hold
Of the team. So I don't think it matters because I really
don't think the NFL has the stomach
to try to push him out because they know what it will mean.
And also even if they win, then they got to worry about him
leaking to
reporters. All sorts of negative things, about other
owners that caused a domino effect of more owners
eventually being in trouble.
What is behind me? Here's where I am
and I'm trying to look without turning around.
We have in the house that we bought eight years ago,
They called it a wine room, it's kind of a wine cellar.
It's kind of a basement
and it's got right there. It's got a little refrigerator that
you keep,
you know, wine that has meant to be refrigerated in. On
the other side of the wall is a bunch of racks that are empty
because we don't drink enough. I like,
why do I need a thousand bottles of wine when I drink
one at a time? Like I'm I'm not gonna host
a 10,000 person party at the house. They don't need to have
a huge inventory. Why? But that's on the other side of
the room and
you got wine glasses hanging up, you got? Yeah, I think Jill
put that stuff back there. You've got
Ace, Frehley Walter Payton, and one of the guys Statler and
Waldorf because the guy that it is there
look like my dad.
And when the Muppet Show was popular, I actually bought that
from my dad and he had that on his desk at our house for
years.
So when he died I brought it here and my main goal is don't
break it. It.
But it's a little and it's got a cut, like, you could put,
I don't know if it holds hard-boiled eggs or what? It's
curved, it's weird. But I only bought the one that looked like
my dad was probably, you know, a buck-fifty back in 1978. But
the The
Statler or Waldorf, without the mustache, the skinny one. Look
like my dad. And my dad looked like that forever.
Like like when he was
younger than me, he looked like that. So that's what that is,
not not. High-end and every once in a while room Raider
gets involved, if I'm on like MSNBC or something. So they're
big on
fruit or like green things in the shop. One time I actually
brought down corn in the husk
and arranged in a ball back there. So anyway it the best
part about it
is there is a router five feet away so no hiccups no glitches
ultra high speed because also set up you can't see
is my son's PS5 with his monitor right next to
the router. So maximum speed, no lagging, no issues, no problem.
Sorry, let's see what else?
Let's Roll.
Can we have a countdown clock to July? 25, please, that comes
from our good friend, Pauline
in the UK. I was think of that earlier because we were having
fun with the countdown clock back during the draft. I look,
it's been
three weeks now. And one day the show's been off and I was
ready to go the Monday
the first week
and the only good thing about this time off is it allows me
to focus on some things that get otherwise ignored that you
just don't have time for. And you kind of, get your ducks in
a row for football season. Get a physical,
you know, other things that just need to be taken care of
that. Once it starts you Don't have time for it, some some,
you know, business related issues.
But I
as evidenced by the fact that I've been going on and on here
already for about 45 minutes, I miss it. And yes
we should have a countdown clock for PF, t 0, t as 20 ft
live returns July 25. Hopefully, Sky Sports
will televise the show that night and I won't have a bunch
of emails from are very loyal and passionate zealous fans in
the UK who
and we appreciate you.
There's no sarcasm there.
I
could do without the hundred emails that I get. When
the show, isn't on for reasons that I can't control, but we do
appreciate you very much.
Here's one more from SP.
There's speculation Gronk. May come back mid year. Whether he
does or not. Do you see that becoming an option for some
players, as the league increases the length of
the Season? I'm surprised it hasn't already happened.
I thought Brett Favre was going to do it at one point, kind of
like the Roger Clemens approach. I think wrong. We'll
do it potentially this year.
Remember his agent. Drew Rosenhaus,
the only time an agent has called BS on a client. Went
public and said. Yeah, I don't think he's retired
this season or next season. I think. Next season is one to
watch because I think Tom Brady's going to potentially
end up playing for somebody else. And here comes Bronk.
Let's win a Super Bowl with a third different team. But if
the Bucks are doing well and we get to November December,
I could see him come back and because he's a
Agent. He's not on the reserve. Retired list of guys on
the reserve retired list. There is a hard deadline for coming
back. If you're a free agent,
can come back whenever you want. He can come back, they
make it to the Super Bowl. He come back just for the Super
Bowl if he wants to
Jr. The boss man, where do you think Julio? Jones ultimately
ends up sunning?
I think there's a chance he may
be done.
I think there's a chance he's not going to get the kind of
offer that causes him to play and I think for any veteran
players made a good bit of money and he's made a great bit
of money over his career.
When it's down to playing, one more year, you have to ask
yourself is what I'm being offered.
Worth it to me, is it worth doing everything I have to do
to play another season. And he very well may be at the point
where he just says, it's not worth it. They're not offering
enough when Marvin Harrison was released by the Colts at a time
when he was due to make 9 million which was top of
the market. he never played again
because no one offered him enough to make it worth his
while now, I think he wanted his nine million
but he never played again because the offer never got to
the point where he said, it's worth it to me to keep doing
this and I think, Julio Jones. We've seen a decline,
it's real,
he can't stay healthy and that's fine. That's fine. Look
when you play football that many years at some point, your
body gets to a point where it's not going to cooperate anymore.
We age we change for the guys entering the league. They feel
like it's never going to happen to the guys who have been
in the league for more than a decade, they understand.
So I
think that he doesn't play. But to tie it back to one of
the earlier questions. Maybe he's in that category of folks like
Bronk who at the right time.
Right after an injury,
great opportunity to get that elusive ring.
Maybe we see Julio Jones but he's got to stay in shape.
That's the other side of. You're gonna jump
on a team's bandwagon
because they have neither because they have luxury as
they get closer suitable, you better be ready to go, so he
better be putting in the work to be ready to go, so he can
walk right through the door, get himself up to speed on
the offense and then by the time playoffs roll around,
maybe he can make a difference, but I was disappointing last
year with the Titans and I think that sent the message. To
a lot of people that today's Julio Jones is a far cry from
the one that we saw dominating in the Super Bowl and would
have been the MVP frankly.
If the Falcons had managed
to finish the job. We're finishing the job and went
longer than I wanted to today, but that's okay. Thank you for
joining us PF. T OT signing off for now probably tomorrow.
Although, after going for about 45 minutes a day, maybe, maybe
tomorrow. I don't know. We'll see.
It's going to be driven by the news. There was a whole lot.
Today, we still found plenty to talk about. We'll see where we
are tomorrow. Maybe we'll do it. On Wednesday.
Maybe we won't. Stay tuned to find out.