for Mitchell, true biscuit. It was funny because
all these deals and and you see the, yeah, no, the agents have
the reporters on on the group text and they send out and
everybody just pair it. So you could
you could send anything
and you'll see it on Chef d and e and rabbit ports. Twitter
feed, anything you got. It could be a hell of a time for
a prank to bad free agency. Doesn't start on April 1 but
the reporting all Mitchell. True Biscay lacked one key.
A element the value of money Mantra right? Just two years.
I was glaring. It was your biscuit two years. No, no
mention of the money. The money came later because it's
inevitable. The numbers eventually come out. 14 million
is the base that
7 million a year. For a guy who for now, we'll be at the top of
the depth chart because he is making more money than Mason
Rudolph. He becomes the de facto starter, but that tells
you
number one, what the rest of the league, ultimately thought,
amateur Biscay and somebody was doing a good job last week.
Week work in the media to make this impression that true
Biscay was going to be in demand. Yeah, try to kick-start
a market and we're like, oh God. This guy's
wait a minute, true bisque. He's gonna go out and get
a crapload of money, somewhere. Really, he is, I guess he is,
I guess he is, I guess he didn't at 2 years, 14 million.
So,
and the bottom line is either
the agent made a last-ditch effort to Goose The Market and
failed or the agent misread. The market all along and past
bad information longer.
The reporters who were
suggesting true Biscay was going to get some big deal.
I mean, really seven million a year with a 208 million dollar
salary cap 7 million a year for a starting quarterback is
peanuts Chris. No, it's been us. It says a lot.
You know, I don't know. There was a lot of Buzz about
Mitchell trip whiskey. And I'm not sure, you know, the agent
thought, maybe they were going to get more money because of
the buzz and I mean, I'm even saying Buzz
forget like, you know, the media
there was teams. I mean Mitchell, true Biscay.
Kind of you know,
what do I want to say, revamped His Image? Right? From what it
was, in the Bears. He played awesome of the preseason last
year and all you heard throughout the year was how
happy the bills were. And then of course you start to hear
wait, the guy
that coach them. Brian De ball.
He sounds like he likes someone else also bring them in the New
York Giants. And I think that kind of like open
the floodgates for people to be like, wait. Let's look in
the Mitchell Trio. Biscay a little bit deeper here. There's some
things too, like, certainly.
But I mean, he's not a guy, there's some things too. Like
we know he's a good Athlete offensive coordinator, Matt,
Canada. I think that's the type of offense. He wants to run. He
wants to move the quarterback and play that
style of football and that side of the ball.
So that makes sense.
But at the same time you can't throw like starting quarterback
type of money at Mitchell. True Biscay, either you can say
that. I mean, they're your fan base and all of us would be
questioning if we went. Wait, you gave 20 million dollars
a year to mature
Biscay, that doesn't make sense, why?
So yes, this gives them a got a comply, right? And if they, you
know, he And when the job great but it also gives them, I think
the flexibility of
a if we do draft a guy and and, you know, the 20s with a draft
pick or we go way, he might not be ready in year. One
mature. Biscay can be that placeholder type of guy too. So
there's a lot of different angles, this could go. And
I think it answered a lot of questions for them, at least
getting him in the building.
But I really do, think the message is he may just be
the placeholder he be. He's got a Mike Glennon, right? Five years
ago. Mike, Glennon was the guy, the Bears signed in free agency
and it was like, well glennon's our quarterback this year and
then
they draft Mitchell, true Biscay. Sometimes you make
a moderate investment or as the case may be a minor investment
in a quarterback that everyone will think that's our guy.
And what that does is it gives you a layer of protection. So
that when you are on the clock with the 20th, overall pick in
the draft, or if you are contemplating trading up as
a students will do for guys, they really like
It's not as obvious as it otherwise would be
that you're thinking quarterback. If Mason doesn't
fit your guy. Yeah, it's obvious that you're thinking
quarterback now, maybe you aren't. But, you know,
I remember when Philip, Rivers, got 25 million
to be the starter in Indianapolis for 2020,
our argument was
you got to pay the guy in order
to have the locker room. Respect him.
The lawyers. Got to drive. Yeah, a nice car. Right? Right.
Or the lawyer is not
taken seriously.
And
I don't think still is care about that. I think this
the Steelers are just happy that they have somebody who's going
to be taken more seriously than Mason Rudolph. And and
it could work, right. Chris. One of the things that I say
all the time is Mitchell. Tree biscuit was never properly used
by Matt Nagy. That's right. Thing that you
were upset about from day one, the comments that Nagy gave to,
I think it was the ESPN Monday night crew about true Biscay
and the limitations in the offense. I mean, he didn't fit
the offense. The offense wasn't revised to fit. True Biscay.
True Biscay can run
the ball very well. You didn't see that get Unleashed. Maybe
the way it should have been Chicago and they still wanted
the playoffs twice. I know what you're basically because, why,
why?
Because have a great defense
and otherwise have a pretty good Supporting Cast,
the Steelers can still be a playoff team with true Biscay true.
Biscay is going to be better than Ben Roethlisberger was
last year. Just walking through the door because Roethlisberger
was a shell of what he used to be.
A green and be more dangerous. That's for sure. It was it
athleticism? His Um, is stronger than Big Ben, you
know, yes, he's not as polished and all that as far as maybe
reading defenses. But as we know you're right, I mean
Big Ben, you know, was not aggressive, decision-maker. It
was looking to Dink and dunk, didn't want to get hit. You
don't have to worry about that. Let alone with the added of
weight, the movement of true Biscay
couple that with Nagi Harris.
We saw all the speed sweeps and reverses with Chase Claypool.
It gives them more moving parts. And, you know, there's
potential here to where, yeah, you gave him a deal and you go
prove it to us, to prove it to us. You can be the starter of
this football team and
will reward you a year or two from now and see where it goes.
But also it does, it gives them the wiggle room with the draft
like you're talking about. It gives them a little wiggle room
to
evaluate Dwayne, Haskins a little bit more, who they
tendered yesterday. Are going to give it be given him, what?
A little over 2.5 million. So I think there's a lot of things.
They're still trying to figure out about that quarterback
position,
but at least they got one and really two guys that,
you know, they seem to at least trust to a degree
to where, you know,
So to your point, they're not going to be desperate come
draft time to go. Oh man, if we don't get a quarterback, what
the hell are we going to do? We left ourselves in a spot here
where we got nothing. They got a lot of options
now.
And they got Mitch true Biscay for a steel. I'd love to know
what other teams had on the table because you can say, hey,
the guys in demand, but
we're only budgeting
768 million per year. I wonder, I wonder if he could have
gotten as much or more to come. Be the backup to Daniel Jones.
Yeah. With Brian table versus going to Pittsburgh and,
and at least until the draft being the starter. That's
the one thing that I hope that you
realize, right? He's potentially going to get supplanted by who
They take in round one of the draft, and he needs to be ready
for that possibility, that he's going to be knocked down, that
he's going to have the future starter hovering over his
shoulder. And he's going to maybe get
two or three or four starts in September
like Mike Glennon did five years ago. Yeah, that's
the risk. That's the risk, but there's a reward to to wear.
Hey, maybe they don't draft a quarterback and you get to be
the guy or
they do draft a quarterback and you're still the guy and you
have a good year and if they do want to go with the future,
the guy, okay. You've shown everybody, you had a good year
and your starting quarterback. And now you get to go get paid
like one,
you know that to me
your question. There was where I was going to go next with it
just says, you know, yeah, maybe maybe he got a better
offer from other teams to be a backup quarterback, but he knew
like wait I'm going to be the
true back up and you know, the chances of me getting on
the field or a little less than
a place where Pittsburgh where
he looks at it and probably look at your clips and went.
Wait. They have Mason Rudolph there. I like my chances. Let's
do Yes, and okay the draft thing. Yeah, that'll be
annoying if I got to deal with it, but
this is still probably the best opportunity, he has,
you know, to further his career
and even with some of these quarterbacks,
you know
that I don't want to get into my breakdown. So these guys yet
because I'm doing it next week, but I don't think there's
anybody that just jumps out to where you go. I'll plug them
and play them and here we go right
now. Let's go. We're ready to go especially where they're
going to be sitting out at the drop. So even with that and
assessing that
Landscape. He could probably go if they draft a quarterback.
I don't know if any of these guys are just plug and play, and
here we go. This is Trevor Lawrence or Zach Wilson or Joe
burrow,
and I think that's probably got to be in this thought process
a little too. And why he signed with the Steelers as well?
Question. Yeah, and I'm thinking of this because to fun
digs tweeted money, Mitch rock star. So Diggs is a Believer
into Biscay based upon. He be like
other in Buffalo. Yeah.
It was a couple of years ago that
Stefon Diggs decided
to Get out of Minnesota on the same day that Kirk Cousins
signed. What was his second contract with the Vikings?
Would you want true Biscay at 7 million a year or Kirk Cousins
at 35 million a year. Basically
is cousins, five times better than true Biscay in your mind.
No, he's not. He's not five times better.
It's not true. Bisque. He's Talent level is greater than
Kirk Cousins, you know, he just, he started a career where
he had different offense of coordinators and then like you
said,
Ed had an offensive coordinator head coach. You really didn't
do much to help him, or fix him. And that offense was
stinky. It didn't matter. Like we saw last year. There was no
true Biscay there. It was still a stinky offense.
So no, he's definitely not five times better. And I do think
there's
there's potential to be a mop more with true Biscay,
you know, and I think that's what everybody's kind of
excited for. And I think that's what we heard in Buffalo.
There's growth there. You know, he's smarter than people gave
him credit for. He's got a better arm than people give
him.
Write it for. And you've mentioned the athleticism,
let alone. It's hard to find a person and
in Buffalo or Chicago. That doesn't like the guy. He's got
a good way with pliers.
So I think all of those things, he brings some stuff to
the football team and, you know, he has potential to be more
talented than Kirk Cousins. Yes,
and I raised that question specifically, because in 2017,
which was Mitch true bisque. He's rookie year. That was
the second time Washington used the franchise tag. On Kirk Cousins
and they had an aggressive and heated debate in
the organization
about whether to
pay cousins. What was 24 million
for that year or Colt, McCoy, 3 million, and make him
the starter. And the argument was, there's no way in hell Kirk
Cousins is eight times better
than Colt McCoy, but they decided to pay cousins. 24
million. That guy continues to get paid kudos to him. It's
the American way. But dollar-for-dollar, maybe, there
are better leave. That sold me just cellular, right? Hold on
found 13
years at four times. We brought up the
Things now in the show so far. You're not a Vikings fan.
Nothing like that. Nah. Yeah. They're they're news either
relevant. I mean, what the hell, we're not supposed to
talk about it, but I don't I felt everyone story goes back
to the Vikings.