into we got some great questions to take a gander at
today Neal watches PFT. Now. The football season is over
the coaching Carousel. GM cycle is over and team start to announce
their offseason preparations. Do you think we will see any
unofficial Blockbuster trades? Denounced, like we saw with
Matthew Stafford a year ago,
you know. And Shireen I'm going to get back to what we said
earlier about Aaron Rodgers. I think he's the first Domino and
we all know Oh that, that would be a blockbuster trade is not
going to be a surprise. We were surprised by the Matthew
Stafford trade. Not
that we we didn't know he wanted out of Detroit. We just
didn't expect it to happen that quickly. We didn't expect it to
happen with the Rams. We weren't really thinking about
it
and it dropped on the Saturday,
the week before the Super Bowl.
I don't, I mean, I feel like anybody who could be traded.
That would be a big name. We're kind of searching and thinking
and looking, you know, Kyler Murray's on the radar screen.
Now, that would have been a blockbuster if it happened
without warning.
But I can't think of one. That would make me say holy crap.
I didn't expect that one to happen.
Well, here's the funny thing. He calls him Matt Stafford, and
I didn't know if that was intentional or not because
Matthew Stafford's wife wore a jacket, if you didn't see it in
the rally. The other day that says Matthew not, Matt kind of
like Patrick Mahomes. Mom got mad when they called him Pat,
so I did did laugh at them
at the Matt Stafford, but you know, what's weird about this.
Mike is the Super Bowl was so late this year
that now, Now, the combine is coming in the league year.
I was just looking like March 8th, which is not that far
away. Is the deadline to franchise players. That's
the franchise tag deadline.
So we are so far into this. I don't know that any of these
would be considered early. What I considered early was like
the Alex Smith trade from a few years ago that came at
the Super Bowl
and the Super Bowl was a week earlier. So that was like early
February that that Happened. So I don't know that I consider it
early right now. I guess it's before the league your start so
it can't be
considered official, but we're getting really close to
the start of the league year right now. So I don't know if we'll
see any of that happen before the actual start of the league
year.
I think the fact that the coaching Carousel took so long
to resolve this year. Yeah, prevented the commencement of
the quarterback Carousel and now we are in the zone where
you can start
figuring out where your options may be in one of these
unofficial trades may happen, but I still believe
that Aaron Rodgers is going to dictate all this. And that's
going to be the first Domino. And then after we know where he
goes, maybe some of these others will happen, but we
expect all of them. We expect Jimmy Garoppolo. If Russell
Wilson gets traded, we're
not going to Oh my God, I didn't see that coming. Now. It
could be a team that he is traded to makes it say. Oh my
God. I didn't see that coming, but
I can't think of somebody out there
which would definitely make it
a holy crap moment if it happens, but I think we're
we've now learned. After the Matthew Stafford experience to
watch everything very carefully because you never know where
it's going to pop up. Wilbur,
Nola asks, who's going to be the starting quarterback for
the Saints next season. My money is on them, bringing back
Jameis Winston because of his familiarity with the system. He
posted a
Video yesterday of him, moving and sliding and
recovering from the torn ACL. He suffered on week 8, against
the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Sherina, though. The problem is unless he's cleared mean
the Saints are going to make plans at quarterback. And I guess
they could just say it's taysom Hill and they'll leave a light
on for Jameis Winston if he's able to come back by
training camp, but that injury in the timing of the injury
halfway through the season. It really makes it difficult for
him to be part of
the quarterback Carousel that plays out in March.
Well, that's absolutely right Mike and if he was healthy,
I would also say that maybe the Tampa Bay Buccaneers would be
interested in bringing back Jameis. Winston, if it's not
going to be Tom Brady because
he was their fall back playing two years ago. If they didn't
get Brady. They'd already said I, when we might go back to
Jamis and it didn't happen obviously because they ended up
with Brady. So
those two teams would be options for Jamis, if he was
fully healthy, but I'm not sure he's going to be ready for
the start of the Season or training camp or whatever. That is so
I do think he's gonna have to go back to one of those teams
that he's familiar with because I don't know that anybody else
is going to sign him. But I also think the Saints will look
around and figure out who the quarterback. That's better
perhaps, that will be ready for the start of the Season could
be. And I don't know who that is right now. I don't think
it's Trevor Simeon and I don't think it's taysom Hill. So
I don't know who the quarterback is that they get, but maybe
there's one. Maybe they're the team that we go.
Holy crap. I didn't.
See the Saints trading for this guy.
There has been some mild chatter of maybe Aaron Rodgers
to New Orleans someone I trust as opposed to the people that
I don't trust someone. I trust says, there's no way in hell
that's happening.
No way. That the Saints would make a play for Aaron Rodgers
and I don't know that Rogers wants to go there without Sean
Payton. Yeah, Pete Carmichael, staying as the offensive
coordinator. I don't know if that's enough to attract Aaron
Rodgers attention and as the Buccaneers bring back
Jameis Winston, that would have sitcom written all over it. Him
and Bruce Arians coexisting after
Aryans. I'm out of town. One name to watch for the bucks
that I haven't thought of
Teddy Bridgewater.
Because two years ago. Yeah, Aryans made it clear
that it was Brady
than Bridgewater.
Those were his to, and I don't know that Bridgewater's done
anything dramatically different the last two years that would
cause Bruce Arians. If you many differently, he's been the guy
that he always was and he wasn't horrible last year and
it wasn't horrible with the Panthers.
So maybe that's one that the
Buccaneers could do
and still be able to bring back Tom Brady,
if he would decide to play.
You know, you go all in for Russell Wilson, DeShaun Watson.
You can't bring back Tom, Brady. If you get Teddy,
Bridgewater under reasonable contract, you could bring back
Tom, Brady. If he decides to keep playing
T, Darla, I'm at some of these some of these handles. I don't
know. It's like trying to figure out a license plate that
has a message on it that I can't discern. Someone asks
will see the lamb go to Arizona to play with Kyler Murray.
Absolutely nice, and I'm one receiver on the Cowboys.
They're going to commit to him and sign him to a long-term
deal. So I think seating lamb is going to be with the Cowboys
for the first seeable future. Now, Marty Cooper, that could
be a possibility.
Well, and I think the bigger issue is, Will
Will calamari even be calamari in Arizona.
Yeah, if CD live shows up, he may be looking around saying,
where's Skyler?
Let's see, one more trip. Nick, over under
15 teams would have
I'd better records this year, if Dan, Campbell, and his staff.
I don't even understand that one.
Do you understand that one
over under 15? The teams that would have had better records
this year if Dan Campbell and staff was a coach. So I get.
Okay. So, um, how many teams would Dan Campbell
and his staff have made better than they were over under his
15. I'll go under. I just don't think that you bring that style
into a locker room and expect it to,
to have immediate results. It may have
results down the road.
But I don't think it's going to make a team better right away.
It's going to take some time to have it percolate.
Well, the only one that I think you need to talk about is
the Dolphins because they had Dan Campbell as their interim head
coach few years ago. That's getting to be many more years
ago, but they could have had Dan Campbell, has her head
coach and perhaps, he would still be their head coach
today. Perhaps not. We
don't know. What do you have made the Dolphins better this
year than what they were. I don't know. I think that Brian
Flores is a pretty good head coach,
I would take the under on the 15 as well. Although, you know,
I'm a big Dan Campbell fan. And I think he's going to be
a great head coach, and I think he's going to be in Detroit
a long time.