Hannah was heading in there.
11, why
they don't move.
AJ Brown talking to jail and hurts via FaceTime, AJ, Brown
and new destination. That was the big surprise of the night.
The Titans trading AJ Brown
to Philadelphia joining us now. From Philadelphia, our good
friend and colleague, Peter King. Hello, Peter. How are
you?
Mike? Chris. How are you guys doing? That was fun last night.
That was Peter. It was great. I did one of the most
action-packed. Awesome. First rounds. I can never remember
what was with living real thing back action.
Every time one headline happened.
10 minutes, later, two other headlines. Develop, you know,
and I thought, I thought one of the biggest things last night
and we'll get to Philadelphia, but one of the biggest things
last night is what Green Bay
didn't do.
And you know, look I mean much is said, Woo boy, what's Aaron
Rodgers thinking today?
Whoo,
I would be ticked off if I were Aaron Rodgers.
Supremely ticked off.
You got the 22nd and 28th pick in the draft. This is a draft
that had six wide receivers in it that appeared to be
of significant first round quality.
You got some debate over Trail on Burke. Some teams really
didn't like him. Right? But clearly the four top ones that
went all in a row,
you know, everybody like those guy. Yes.
And what did how we Roseman doing, Philadelphia?
Witten got
a franchise receiver in AJ Brown. What did Brian
gudykunst? Do in Green Bay,
he refused to pay too much to move up, and I do think that
they that the Green Bay Packers were trying to move up and
failed.
Well, and what makes it even worse
is that the Lions the
hapless and inept, Detroit Lions
operating from a position lower than the Packers. With only one
first-round, pick found a way to spring up, in the middle of
the action to get Jameson Williams, that has to make
Aaron Rodgers even more upset.
Well, and they did not
ruin the rest of their draft to do so,
you know, they basically traded two picks in the 30s.
To move up, whatever it was 20 Pixar. So to go up and get
Jameson Williams. Now,
I don't think Jameson Williams
would have been the perfect pick
pick up for Aaron Rodgers because right, I dismiss
this. Oh Jamison Williams going to be ready in early October.
Stop.
Stop. You know, you have ACL surgery. You don't come back in
a pristine
clean way after eight months. Oh,
you just don't so I don't know when he's gonna come back. But
Aaron Rodgers
needed. Chris olave on this team.
That's what he needed.
He needed his general manager to go find a receiver, who's
ready to play and contribute and be a huge Factor opening
day. And the Packers did not do that Peter. Did you get
the sense from people? You talk to in the league that you know
people thought Green Bay would make an aggressive move to move
up. There are do that. You did. Yes. Yeah, right. Yeah,
I thought I thought Green Bay I was saying at all, you know,
the last four or five days.
I think Green Bay is going to try hard to move up because
Chris listen, I am a numbskull.
I am Shemp of The Three Stooges
and and I knew I had my mock draft, six receivers in the top 18,
and that's what happened. And I'm not saying, oh boy. What
a Nostradamus right Nostra mock draft. Yes,
I'm not saying that the point that I'm making is that
everybody was talking about on these receivers. Right, right
everybody, right? And so, if you thought you were going to
stay at 22 or maybe make a little nibble
move up and get one of those guys, not going to happen,
not going to happen.
And and I don't know whether Brian gudykunst, indeed.
Maybe only light. Let's just say for
Sake of argument. Let's say he only liked Chris, olave and,
and, and maybe whoever Drake London. I don't know who he
liked. Right? Right. Let's just say you only liked a couple and
by the time 11 rolled around,
he's gone, you know, New Orleans trades up and gets
a lot of a
whatever, whatever, you know, you got to find a way even if
you have to pay significantly more
than you wanted to.
And to me, Brian gudykunst, didn't do that.
And Peter, here's what's amazing at a time. When you
have teams falling all over themselves to get in position
to draft rookie receivers with high expectations. And we know
that a certain number of them are going to work out a certain
number won't
you have Howie Roseman
busting open. The vault to pay a guy that his current team
doesn't want to pay. We saw it happen with the Raiders in
Davante, Adams, the Dolphins and Tyree kill, and now
the Eagles joined that
F them picks club
and they give up draft capital and money
to get. AJ Brown to go with a proven commodity, instead of
rolling the dice on one of these rookies because we
thought going into the night, the Eagles,
we're going to try to maybe
sneak up a few spots and get a rookie. They had another plan
and that's go get AJ Brown.
I think the AJ Brown thing is fascinating might because
first of all, understand the mechanics of how this had to
work. And I talked to how Heroes when about this around
midnight. Last night,
just understand the mechanics of this and how difficult. Alt
it was,
they did not complete the
framework of a trade, with John Robinson, at the Tennessee
Titans until yesterday during the day.
Then, and only then
could the Philadelphia Eagles, engage the agent for AJ Brown
into contract negotiations
and how heroes in admitted last night,
this trade was Not going to get done
until I mean, unless we had a an agreement with AJ Brown
because if they didn't have an agreement with AJ Brown,
you can imagine he's gonna hold out until they pay him 30
million a year.
And, and I think what happened
going back and forth. You know, how he Roseman said last night
that this the deal
got done around the 15th, pick in the draft and think about
It. Mike,
Tennessee, took Trail on Burks at number 18. So
they had to be prepared
to make a pick or,
or they were going to call it off. And no one would have
known about this. They hoped
and so that is exactly how this happened. One other thing about
this trade in this story. Okay, so everybody,
I was under the impression. Okay,
Jalen hurts and AJ Brown. They know each other.
Okay, do they? But in fact, when
when Jalen hurts was still at Alabama, he tried to recruit.
You know, he tried to get AJ Brown, to go to bail and come
over right to Alabama. And so, there was this thing between AJ
Brown, AJ Brown had to a birthday party for his daughter
over the weekend and Jalen hurts, was there,
that's how close they are.
So this is going to be the start. I think
of a really good chance.
For Jalen hurts to win the quarterback job long term in
Philadelphia. My peter. I want to just piggyback on this just
a little bit more there to just through because it's
interesting the dynamic. I loved how you're laying out
about the AJ Brown conversation and getting some of those
parameters done.
Now. Do you know, if like was this one where it was going to
happen? Pretty much no matter what once they
realized or was it one of those where once they saw the board
fall and the to Ohio State guys, and then they made
the move we go.
We like this guy.
Then whoever's left on the board.
Yeah, Chris, that's a great question. Right?
This trade
was
irrespective. I think that's what word of whatever happens
in this graph. Gotcha,
the Philadelphia Eagles wanted AJ Brown
after they did. All of their due diligence on the veteran
receivers, and understood the Debo. Samuel was not getting
out of San Francisco, right? But I think this
Steam, wanted AJ Brown more than they wanted the receivers
in this draft and they understood,
you know, how Heroes mean admitted this
having a quarterback
on a rookie contract allowed us to do this because we can spend
money that once we pay a quarterback. We may not have
exactly that kind of money.