the Cardinals. Good news is that it sounds like the calamari stuff
is yeah.
Cleans over it won't be over until they sign a new contract.
Let's hear a little bit because Steve Khan was making
the rounds yesterday. He was on with Rich Eisen here on peacock
and Sirius XM 85. Let's have a listen to Steve Keim
with Rich Eisen talking about the calamari situation,
every deal that you seem done for quarterbacks. After their
third year, have all been done anywhere from
mid-july to about September. So I wanted to get through
the draft process free agency, all the work that we put into it.
And then now we can take a step back. We And see if we can get
something done but everything's been good. Can, you know,
the clients communication been open
with him? Eric Burkhart is Agent and hopefully, we'll be
able to get something nailed down before the season starts.
So he has not demanded a trade from the Arizona car. No, no,
nor would. I trade him, nor would you trade him?
All right, go ahead and expound on that.
Why not? I mean, because I was a decent GM when Carson Palmer
was our quarterback and when he retired, I wasn't a very good.
GM. And then now that we have Carlo, Maria
become a little better GM. Again.
I'm smart enough to
figure out there. When you got one, keep them.
I know it's consistent with what he said in the pre-draft
press conference. When he said, zero chance, that they're going
to trade calamari and that was the day that things started to
turn. That was they calamari tweeted.
I want to win. Super. I want to lose our house on his hose,
right? Yeah. That's the moment that I think a crystallized.
Hey, Kyle. Are you may be thinking about life elsewhere,
you see? These other guys changing teams and you're
thinking, it's going to happen for you. It's just not, we're
just not going to do it.
And that's where you kind of call a guy's Bluff, a little bit
because,
as I've said before, if your franchise quarterback isn't all
in
then why do you want him there? But calamari is not wired to be
anything other than all in. He's not going to say. I'm just
going to do the bare minimum.
I'm just going to punch clock. I'm just going to show up when
I'm supposed to and leave the mo Mike. And I'm not going to
try to hold teammates accountable and study the A
book and all this stuff. They're banking on him,
being all in, no matter what happens. And also, they're
banking on a contract proposal
being done at some point in the upcoming months
time.
Previously in the day, told, Adam shine that the July August
September timeframe. I think he get it done before training
camp opens. I think that makes the most sense.
Once training camp opens you're locked in for the Seas. You
don't need the distraction. Let's just go ahead and get it
done. You got time now it Be all that difficult. You got me,
you got June. You got your lie. Let's get it done before Camp
opens. And and I know that it's probably more complicated deal
than it is for other players, but they should be able to get
it done. Chris. Yeah, I would think so too.
I kind of see it the same way like you're kind of laying it
out. Like one of those things where you know, it's either
done and he's going to training camp and signing it
or most of the details are done and he signs it within
the first week at training camp and it's like, you know that first
week training camp news. Hey, look Arizona's got their
quarterback locked up something. But yes,
it's inevitable. It's kind of like we said, I mean,
you know, one, hey, Arizona's based everything around Kyler
Marine the skill set for the most part and then if you're
Kyla Marie,
you know, you kind of said it to. They're just you know,
the grass isn't always greener. This place, take took, you
number one. They believe in you. They're going all in on
you. It's hard to go to a new place and
you know proved everybody who you are and get them to buy in,
you know, once again
let alone we talked about there's a number of teams and
Father would never let Kyle overview the quarterback
because of his size and his stature and all that too. So
hey, it's I think this this is a perfect marriage for each
other and they got things going in the right direction.
Chyme is surrounded them with Talent, They Got Talent on
defense and they're one of the better teams in the NFC. So
I wouldn't want to mess that up. If I'm Kyla Murray or Steve
Kim.
He hadn't been at the offseason program though, and I've yet to
see anything to suggest. Yeah. I haven't. No better. Yeah.
Look. I'm not I'm not setting foot on the field until I get
the contract. I'm not taking on that risk because obviously if
some freak injury happens,
all of a sudden.
Well, we should probably wait
to negotiate a contract until we know that you're going to be
healthy. He's bearing the injury risk, so he needs to
avoid getting injured until he puts pen to paper to finalize
that deal, but they're still going to have
a challenge. We've got that graphic of the top 10
highest paid quarterbacks. It's a spread of about 20 million.
Where does he land? Where does he fall?
And let's see it again. If we do the same in the back, I'd
like to for the same reasons. Yeah,
the same way. They usually what happens is we talked about it
long enough and it pops up. So I haven't asked for, I got
worried about it, popped up and I take the lead. Okay, I will
read it popped up and I was like, maybe so deep in thought,
and looking into the camera and looking at
some things here, on my computer that I maybe I missed
it. I wasn't sure.
Look at this. Here it is. Here it is. So you see that spread?
And you're not you're not just talking. Going about the top of
the market now.
Where is the market going?
Where's the salary cap going?
That's why I've always said that the best possible
quarterback deal is tied to percentage of the cap. So
you're protected against your deal becoming obsolete. Like,
Patrick Mahomes deal is going to be and then he's at
the mercy of the cheese being willing
to rip it up and redo it
and and presumably they are, but
who knows, who knows,
you know, you never know when they're gonna win. They're
gonna call his bluff and say, what you gonna do, what you
can. Do stay home. Gonna hold out. I cannot play football.
Hey, you signed a contract on your contract, contract,
contract contract. So he is at
their Mercy to be willing to adjust it at the appropriate
time. But those numbers are going to keep going up. And up.
So from column, merge perspective, if I'm going to
lock in for X number of years. I want to factor in where
the markets going
and that's what makes it harder
to sell from a PR perspective to the fans. Yes, right because
if all of a sudden he's the highest paid,
Quarterback in NFL history, they're going to be like, well,
you don't deserve that. Well, I'm anticipating
where the market is going. I'm going to get passed by other,
guys. I'm trying to stake my spot
now before it becomes.
Obsolete. Yeah, by virtue of other quarterbacks that are
going to be signing their contracts. But the average fan
doesn't understand that they just say, how dare he.
I remember when Eli Manning was negotiating,
his final extension
and
he was looking at and this was at a time when
the quarterback Market was stagnating at the top. Yeah,
probably thanks to Tom Brady Corsa, right? But it was
stagnating at the time, going was ruining and all of them,
right? And and Eli Manning was looking at a year.
The Following season with the franchise tag
based upon his cap number from the final year of his contract.
It was a pretty big number. So if you do a contract based on
the franchise tag number lo and behold,
Eli Manning is going to be the highest-paid quarterback in
the league, but it's a fair assessment based upon
where you are where your Leverage is your Franchise Tax
coming up. You want me to do a deal based on the franchise
tag? That's the deal. We do owe on the highest paid player in
the NFL.
Oh, well stuff happens, but you know what happened?
Somebody. Leaked that Eli Manning is looking to be
the highest paid player in the NFL, right? And fans. Lost their
minds and other things. Yeah, how how dare he, how dare he?
Well, here's how he dare.
Here's his situation. It's not his fault. The market hasn't
moved if they wanted to sign a long-term contract. This is
what he's looking to make next year. Why would you give that
money back? Why would you do that? So there's a PR component
to this as
well. It's got a rain in, Kyler's Murray. You don't want
to become hated by your fans because they say,
Who does he think he is? What's he ever accomplished? What's he
ever done?
Well, he's done plenty first of all and second. He's trying to
do a contract that takes into account where the market is
going because we see it's going haywire.
That's it is it's going to explode. It's just gonna
continue to Rock It upwards. It is the NFL's killing it. The
gambling industry is killing it. It's going nowhere. It's
all gonna go up up up.
The Sweet Spot is yeah gonna be interesting to see where that
That is, it is, I don't think
it'll go north of Rogers or anything like that. But
I would expect Rogers Rogers isn't a real fear. I know
sweetheart. I know you're, I know, short-term Band-Aid,
right? Right. So thing in my mind, 46 is the real Toby alarm
long-term deal to Sean
W. Right? And I would think he's gonna dance right around
kind of that number right around there at least, you
know, in the first few years of the contract, where it's going
to be 44. 45, 46, somewhere around there.
Yeah. I mean, again,
as he is good as Josh,
Allen or Patrick Mahomes,
you know right now. No, he's not you're right, but
he is the guy that I think is worthy enough here. Like we
talked about it's not just like oh, this is some quarterback
now, he gets a new contract to be the highest-paid guy. The
thing we used to complain about.
This guy does have the potential
has already been a top 10 quarterback,
borderline top five ish
at moments here to where you could go. Okay, you know, he
may be he is the highest-paid guy for a
Few months or a year or whatever
that that this is the type of guy that I think, you know,
I don't think either one of us will be mad at that happened.
I can understand that. Well, look,
he was the betting favorite to be the MVP
until we call 70 ankle injury against the, it was week 8
against the Packers on Thursday night. Next last play of
the game, right. Before he threw the ball to AJ, Green has
that's run players. Something didn't bother to look back for
the ball. They still
got a one that fricking game,
and then he was gone for several weeks and he wasn't
the same the rest of the year, but that's all the more reason to
get paid. Made you need to get your money
because you need to have the protection against the impact
of an injury. Not just the games you miss, but your
inability to play at the highest possible level
while you are less than a hundred percent, but you still
want to play.