Speaking of mysteries that that have become solved, thanks to
episode 1 of it needed to be said, which dropped last
Friday. Tyree kill said, plenty of things that
were eye-openers as it relates to why he wanted out of Kansas
City and his belief that to a tonga by Lola, is more accurate
than Patrick Mahomes yesterday. Patro homes meeting with
the media. For the first time
since Hills comments came out here is what Mahomes had to say
about his former teammates, comments
drives it all. Tyreke said some of the things he said.
I mean,
I'm surprised a little just because I feel like we love
Tyreke here, we've always loved. We still love him. I saw
him out of Formula 1 in Miami
and everything like that, but
I'm sure it had something to do with trying to get his podcast,
some stuff and get it rolling. But
definitely, I still love Tyreke is one-of-a-kind player,
but Reggie no one coach reads off and it takes the whole
team. I mean, this offense was wrong before I got here.
There's offense was rolling
when I was Young Cowboy fan, watching the Eagles beat up on
the Cowboys. So, I mean, it's a, it's an offense, that's more
than one player, and that includes myself.
I haven't talked to him since the podcast
but came out. But I mean, I talked to him before me one in
Miami and met
and everything seemed fine.
Yeah, look,
Patrick Mahomes going to be diplomatic about this. He's not
going to try to make things worse. But at some level,
the chiefs made a strategic decision to move on from tirade
kill. Whether it's
we don't want Patrick Mahomes to be overly smitten with
the Deep ball. We wanted to learn how to work the underneath
areas of the offense, a little bit better and Sims. And
I talked about that yesterday, maybe Patrick Mahomes holds on
to the ball
a little bit longer than he should because he's waiting for
Tyree. Kill to get open 60 yards down the field and he
Wants
to throw that high arcing pass to tie Rico. And now he's going
to have to be a little more surgical underneath.
Maybe they were worn out by Tyree, kills demands for
the ball, but they decided to be diplomatic about it and not
make it a big deal, but to the extent that
that he'll talked about his conversations with Andy Reid.
And Patrick, my home's is, this was all coming to a head.
I think Mahomes is very well aware of why Tyree kill
isn't there and they are making,
I think Shireen
a strategic. A strategic
guess
that they're going to be okay without him.
But who's the guy that's going to come and double coverage all
the time? Now with Tyra kill not there, they need somebody
else to become that weapon who is so potent that defense has
begin their process by saying, how are we going to stop Tyree
kill. They don't have that guy now.
You know what? Patrick Mahomes accuse the words, Mike but
Patrick Mahomes just said that he thought this is what I got
out of it. It's re-kill was using clickbait there. He
wanted people to click on to his podcast,
listen to his podcast.
Yeah.
Miss Tyreke kill I think, you know, he averaged 86 catches
1,200 yards, 11 touchdowns over the last four seasons, he was
very very good. This will open.
Maybe not open things up.
But in Travis Kelce is going to become more of a target for. He
was second and targets last year, after Terry kills hundred
fifty nine targets, but
he's going to command the double coverage now. So it's
going to be up to some of those receivers that they've gotten
in there to kind of do what Tyree killed did and no one
else's Tyree kills. So
we'll see what Patrick Mahomes can do. He still a great
quarterback? I still this is think this is going to be
a very good team but now it's looking more like maybe some of
the
Brady years, when Brady didn't have all those great receivers
when he didn't have that great, that Randy Moss. The year, that
Brady threw the 50 touchdowns but it New England, he really
didn't have those great receivers. So this is now kind
of what Cain, the city
reminds me of, but as we talk a lot, Mike, you're getting
receiver straight out of college who were coming in to
the NFL and playing really, really well, they have that in
Sky more. Maybe he's going to become that guy. There
certainly betting
on him being very good.
Season as a rookie as much as they're going to depend on him. So
maybe that was part of the thinking to that. Hey, we don't
want to pay this guy. We can get a receiver who's just as
good just as fast. We're getting gamble here that we can
win without Tyree kill and that's what they've done Mike
for whatever reason.
That's the gamble, the chiefs made swapping out, Tyree kill
for Sky more. And also picking up Marquez Valdez scanning and
JuJu Smith Schuster's. Free agents, the Packers made that
gamble
Davante, Adams out, Christian Watson in, and the Titans. And
Made that gamble with AJ, Brown out
and trail on Burks in and plenty of indications that
Burke's is struggling to make the adjustment to the NFL. And
I think the Titans took the biggest risk, because
Adams already had a second contract and was in the NFL for
eight years Hills had a second contract, and they've won
a Super Bowl with him
for Burke's or, I mean, for AJ Brown. He's three years in.
You're supposed to want to keep those guys in built around
those guys, so, that was a hell of a risk that the Titans took.
But I think we're going to see more teams, do that as more,
and more receivers, great receivers. Come in every year,
the reality is, there's no guarantee that the one you get
is going to be great. And you, maybe that Taemin inevitably,
it's going to happen. And we're a team, does this Shereen?
And they say
We picked the wrong guy.
Well you look at the Cowboys getting rid of Amari Cooper
that's one. Now is 20 million that much with what we've seen
with the receiver Market that maybe they should have kept
the Marty Cooper and I know CD lamb
they believe he's our number-one receiver. Shoot, it
was their number one receiver last year. It was just we were
talking about, Amari Cooper has a number one receiver. But CD
lamb was the guy that let them and catches and yards. And all
of the important things that we talked about for a number one,
receiver that was CD lamb. So
there may already be
Some regret there with the Cowboys and and getting only,
by the way, a fifth round draft pick for a mark Cooper. So yes,
there's going to be that coming Mike where these rookies don't
live up to what some of these veterans
did and you look at a team like the Vikings that's going to
have a decision to make with Justin Jefferson. Are you going
to pay Justin Jefferson and you're going to move on for
him? But a year ago we would have said of course they're
going to pay him but now after what we've seen this all
season,
you don't know what teams are going to do
with these receivers. They chose not to sign up.
To pay Stefon, Diggs, and ended up with Justin Jefferson who.
So, maybe they have the Mind. Same mindset of, we can get
a receiver. Who's just as good or better?
They had paid. Digs that digs, was more about
an anti Kirk Cousins position in the day. That cousins got
ya, a new contract. That's when digs tweeted his way out of
Minnesota to Buffalo, you mentioned, the fifth round pick
the Cowboys got for Amari Cooper. They were going to cut him,
they were going to cut him if they didn't get a fifth round,
pick for him. Were abandoning ship on that 20 million-dollar
contract that he had for this year. And and in hindsight 20
million for a guy who can do what, Amari Cooper does not
a bad deal at all, because the great receivers are getting
more and more
all the time. One last thing on
you mentioned, the click bait. And that's funny because
Pat Mahomes said, hey, you know, he's trying to get his
podcast off the ground. I suspect, and I made
the prediction on Monday, three and a half episodes over under for
it needed to be said, and I'm only saying it because
it needs to be said,
you know, YouTube views can be misleading because, you know,
sure like this, where on peacock and a lot of our Clips
are
consumed in significantly. High numbers via PFT when we put
a clip on onto a story there and
150,000 people see it. Just there.
The only Avenue
that Tyree kills podcast was available that I know of
Was YouTube and had like, I checked a couple minutes ago,
fifty seven thousand views in a week. He's got to be apoplectic
that
that's all that it did after all the
crap that it's stirred up.
So II have a feeling that it needed to be said is not going
to be saying many things for very long. He's going to
realize that it maybe isn't what he thought it was going to
be, and he's going to find a way to back out of it and just
focus on football, but we'll see. I hope he keeps doing it.
I hope he keeps doing it and saying inflammatory things.
It's good for our
His clickbait is good for our
clickbait. Let's go ahead and take a break when we return.
We had a story yesterday
about where things may go
for Deshaun Watson.
If, and when the union
takes up the fight on his behalf and the potential consequences
for a couple of owners,
if a full-blown fight breaks out between the NFL, the NFL PA
over, DeShaun Watson will discuss that next on this
Friday edition to PFT Lon