about this because I sent out the text on the P. F. T. change
somebody text me a couple of hours ago
and and not look we didn't report this I haven't tweeted it
I haven't breathed a word of it anywhere I'm just
giving you guys an idea of how the sausage is made somebody
told me are now back in June you're going to chiefs well I'm
not reporting that until I know it can be confirmed so I
and and I accepted the possibility
there while I'm trying to confirm it someone else will
report it but two hours later
I don't see R. O. back in juniors reportedly warned
the chief so it was either premature or inaccurate
or it's this big mystery that they're somehow keeping
close to the vest for now it
is impossible to be confirmed and no one has reported that
that's something that I'm going to be keeping a close eye on
over the course of the next hour whether or not the news
hits they don't know Beckham junior
has indeed chosen for the Kansas City Chiefs and
you know that would be a little bit of a surprise because
the momentum has been pointing toward the saints miles and
I think it comes down to what role does Odell Beckham junior
wants
with his new team
and it's a sliding scale
New Orleans number one receiver
on question slip right into the Michael Thomas number thirteen
and off you go Kansas city
you're not the number one garbage got a better
quarterback
so that's where he has to make that value judgment where he
wants to be and only he knows
how to balance the various factors
and make a decision as to which team you want to play for
yeah I I mean I have frankly if if it's me I think
that I would want to be with Kansas city because I think
that they have a better shot at least making the playoffs right
now based on the way things are going I mean I I don't I think
New Orleans defense is really good
but I don't know that I trust Trevor Siemian or Taysom hill
whichever quarterback chomping decides to go with %HESITATION
more than I would trust Patrick Mahomes but you know I I think
it's like you said he has to weigh
whether or not he wants to be that number one wide receiver
and get all the targets and it'll be that guy where is he
was not %HESITATION with my Cleveland Browns as you like
just say Oregon you know do you want to go to Kansas city and
have a better shot at winning a championship or do you want to
go to a place like Green Bay where they have a better record
and you know you're gonna be playing second fiddle to
the Mante Adams but that probably
is the best team situation or is still you know at least it
seems like it first the Seahawks are going to be a very
viable option do you want to go there and really help try to
change things where
you'd still not be the primary option there probably because
they will probably rotate the way the targets to go around
between him and also what do came back half an hour walk it
so there there's just a lot of different factors
include a lot of different pros and cons probably that Beckham
has to wait for this decision
and one very big factor here and just so we're clear on how
the money works
he agreed to waive three million dollars of
the termination pay he would have been entitled to receive from
the Cleveland Browns guarantees an offense don't come into play
here termination pay is money that you get and you get to
keep if you're vested veteran and you are released
after week one if you're on the roster week one you released
after that you get the full amount of your remaining
salaries termination pay on reduced by anything you make
anywhere else however
the Browns and Odell Beckham junior provided a road map
a lot of the teams weren't
aware off as I understand it this ability to
reduce or flat out for for your termination pay was added to
the twenty twenty C. B. eight was not in the two thousand
eleven CBA I've seen some claims on Twitter that it's
happened in the past
teams were under the impression generally not every team
I didn't pull every team of the people I know were under
the impression that you can't wave termination pay well you can
now and
the Browns and Beckham agreed that
three million dollars
of the potential termination pay is gone so he needs three
million to break even
with where he would have been under his cleaning contract but
it's not just what are you going to make the rest of this
year miles it's what are you setting yourself up to make
next year
so if there's a team like the Seahawks are for you three
million
okay great
I make all my money
but I'm gonna be second fiddle third fiddle who knows what in
Seattle when they like to run the ball and I really going to
see the ball I'm gonna get to do the things that will set me
up for a big contract next year but %HESITATION New Orleans
Sean Payton design the offense
all around me I'm gonna be the guy Sean Penn's gonna
brainstorm all these plays how to get me the ball even with
Trevor Simien or Taysom hill
and and that's part of it too with the chiefs maybe are
playing deep into January into February in the Super Bowl and
everybody sitting home while their seasons are over watching
me play it's a complicated
process because it's
money this year versus whatever he can make as a free agent and
the better he plays and the bigger the plays he makes and
the more buzz he creates
more money as a free agent
right so I think that sort of sets up a couple of questions
right like Hey if there were say let's call it a multi year
deal on the table
would that maybe be worth it for back in junior in order to
get himself maybe a little more guaranteed money up front as
opposed to just betting on himself and saying listen I'm
gonna go when I'm maybe gonna get three million dollars I'm
going to get whatever else I'm going to get
right now to set myself up
for the rest of the season for free agency there in March
where I kinda of get to go through this process again
where a bunch of teams sort of want me
and you know they say will it be great to have you and here's
why and injures all the money that we're going to give you
and I think the other part of it is then
I will where does that necessarily mean that he's
going to be able to maximize his skills the most right
because again I think you have to factor the quarterbacking
your whether
is chomping designing please or not
right I like I said before Trevor Simeon
and Jason hill don't excite me
as you know possibly somebody's gonna get me the ball
right and I guess you know he did play with you I'm manning
and we can now debates on whether you want manning was
really that great of a quarterback or not and I think
frankly Beckham junior probably extended his career in on
manning's career
a couple years longer than it maybe should have been
%HESITATION given away how well
Beckham junior played those first few years that he had
the lead so I I guess it's it's still you know
how long does he really want away the fact that okay I can
really get the ball
verses you know maybe there's a team that wants to guarantee me
a little bit more up front is that makes sense
all absolutely and that's the other side of it too is it just
a one year deal or does somebody want to secure his
rights beyond twenty twenty two if I'm not %HESITATION back in
junior my preference is to go back to the market
in twenty two unless I get a significant guaranteed payday
now with the team where I believe I'm going to be part of
the future they're going to be building around me and you know
maybe the saints can do something on a multi year deal
and Sean Payton can Saito B. J.
Hey you know what
here's who I think are quarterback's gonna be next year
one point not not so there's a lot of variables that go into
it so the chiefs are a team that we're gonna continue to
keep an eye on
over the course of the remainder of this hour and beyond because
I have reason to pay attention to the chiefs I've yet to
confirm what I was told we're not reporting it but we're
watching very carefully to see if the chiefs are in play
there was a thought earlier this afternoon that the saints
were the team that was going to get Odell Beckham junior
the patriots are in on it I don't know how series Beckham is
about playing for the patriots and I don't know Myles
where he lands on the spectrum of Randy moss who took to
the patriot way
perfectly for three years it lasted three years but it was
it was a great run while he was there or out Chad Johnson
who was never able
to accept and adopt and
be himself
in that environment and I think with Chad Johnson is inability
to be that that Chad with a lot of flair and personality
that affected his
his performance so
OBJ's always been more of an individual
can he subsume that quality
can he become one of the I used to call them the Stepford
patriots haven't called them that a while but
you know basically the the robots the bill ballot check
once
being all about team only team no complaining no excuses no
anything other than you do what you're told as part of
a broader machine that is trying to achieve a greater goal and
we won't know
until he's actually there if even goes there
I would say this about Odell Beckham junior we didn't really
hear him complaining about anything with the Browns until
last week right
so I mean an all those teammates that are now his ex
teammates to really call him I'm a model citizen a model
teammate makes a really good things about him younger
steamers
have said thank you for the way that you help me
and you know helped shape my career
%HESITATION as it is just started so
I don't know if you could or could not adapt to that I think
this is a long is he's in a situation where he's getting
targets and making ladies
he's still gonna be
kind of happy and I think the bond Adams put it like this
earlier today right it it's sort of like well
you know one target and then one catch for six yards
in his last game
with the Browns and it's a little bit easier
to just kind of like seen that on your chart in terms of a bar
right for where the performance is right now so I guess
as long as the team gets him the ball at this point and lets
him show off his receiving ability I don't see him
necessarily being a problem child especially because at
this point now he's gonna be able to pick his destination
so can you pick your destination and you still are
a pain in the rear end that's not going to be a good factor for
you going into whatever you're free agency is if you have it
next March
yeah I mean that is absolutely the right way to view it he has
to be a model citizen with his next team if he wants to lay
the foundation to be
embraced when he becomes a free agent if he becomes a free
agent March of twenty twenty two you mention the Packers
that's another team that's been linked
to Odell Beckham and you mentioned about Adams let's
hear from what he said earlier today Dante Adams on
the possibility of %HESITATION B. J. becoming a
member of the G. B. P.
I haven't %HESITATION
in a situation where to you know the little leagues
you know pre mir guys you know obviously it's been a different
situation with him over the past few years but everybody
knows what he still about so
%HESITATION I don't think there's a lot of doubt as far
as what he can do so %HESITATION it'll be different
I'm sure but it's you know
arm pretty secure in in what I bring to this offense in this
team %HESITATION and I know what is my city is based off
where you just came from he'd be happy to deal with you know
whatever at this point I mean you had one catch like six
yards in his last
game so I can guarantee you we can get a more than not over
here so %HESITATION as long as he's good with two catches
twelve yards which we should have had
that's funny %HESITATION I I look
I wonder I wonder
about the mixture of the personalities %HESITATION B. J.
and Erin Rogers I just wonder
I and I just wonder
I wonder I don't you don't you wonder I
mean you know you better call
in their orders with anybody of this white man may well right
exactly right about him over last week but if but if your
%HESITATION back in June you got to go in there and kiss
the ring
Aaron Rodgers in gonna because kissing any rings he's the king
in Green Bay and and and I wonder if that's a factor in
this two miles after two and a half years of dealing with
Baker Mayfield and
I frankly do think the Baker's got a little bit of
responsibility for the failure of O. B. J. to really work and
I said from the moment they traded for %HESITATION dal
Cleveland is it big enough for both of these personalities
just as Baker was morphing into
the new lebron here comes %HESITATION B. J. at a time
when OB J. was a much bigger deal it's like is this really
going to work is this really going to work
so I don't want to be in lebron I I mean I know he would not we
read
you know what I'm saying
why do we have about about rewind to January
February twenty nineteen the vibe I know he was we're
finally we're finally Hey there we would put the fire out on
the river baby let's go surfing that was the attitude all right
the
fire out on the river let's go see
Billy surfing on the Cuyahoga river first of all
so I feel really
hi you can catch
I'm saying like I mean I think the more apt comparison as
a Clevelander would be burning coals are not old Ron James
lebron James is you know Rondon's like was
the means on the basis of
the downtown Clearwater comedy for years and years and years
because you know that's just the way things work down there
I mean when lebron James was there everything was you know
about these sports street was
you know going off every
one is he's not as big as the Browning never will be is
because the I'm sorry I'm sorry when I'm sorry but he's not
like let's ride stomp the brakes a little bit all right
but but my point is how much of his experience
with Baker Mayfield
will be a factor for Odell Beckham junior because he had
Johnny milquetoast is this quarterback in New York for
the first six years of his career any linemen you lie manning
socket and fight with anybody
right
why am I wrong now let me start
first now they
no
money double murder and finger now what I would change what
a transformation but as a football player Eli manning was
not a guy that had a whole a lot of sound and fury
and all I'm saying is
as you're laying out the various factors and Hey
sometimes
having choices is difficult because you know what
happens when you have choices
at some point you gotta pick a door you got three four five
doors
Hey Odell which one are you going to take and is it playing time
how much my gonna get the football
how much money I'm gonna make
do they want to sell me for one year do you want me to sign
a three year deal and
is my quarterback any good and I'm not gonna get along with my
quarterback so I think I just
I'm just saying miles that has to be a factor somewhere in
the analysis apps
given what
he likely dealt with in Cleveland where when it was his
fault Baker's fault everybody's fault nobody's fault it seems
like those two didn't get along
so as I'm making my next decision
that experience is going to I think some of these curious
about
as it relates to the guy who's going to decide whether or not
to get the football
I lead then I think that makes a totally good sense I I think
that you have to factor in you know whether or not you're
actually going to have to mystery with the quarterback
of the team that you decide that you want to sign what they
think those things are extremely important what if
you're not a fit for the environment that you're in
you're probably not going to be successful and I think that
that's not just football that's
in life you know you can be
in any job any industry and maybe
you're just not the right fit for the organization
you're gonna have a bad time like I think that that's just
the way life works so I I feel like it's
the sort of weird protracted free agency thing that you've
got to go through in the middle of the season and if you're not
going to be a good fit for that locker room then it's going to
be a
problem were every you go despite how much money you may
be making so I I don't know how he's going to be able to sort
of measured batter quantify that %HESITATION in terms of
the way things are working right now but yeah I think they
were ever back in junior does he's got
to make sure he is a
bit for not just that offense but also that locker room
%HESITATION because otherwise it's just not gonna end well