Hour Three- Sal Capaccio on Bradley Chubb and What happened in Baltimore

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It's like a special Capaccio for you, right?

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Just to finish briefly the conversation we were having,

I do think it might be a thing

not everybody, it's relatively few.

I do think it might be a thing

where college players go to the NFL

and tweak the pronunciation of their name.

I think a few guys have done that.

You watch college clips

to find out how a player's name is pronounced

and then they get to the NFL

and they tell you, no, it's not HN, it's HN.

And Romeo Dobbs was something else

until he got to, like,

I think maybe there's a little bit of,

there might be a strategy in that somehow,

like, it sounds ridiculous, right?

The strategy part, maybe, yeah.

I'm not getting, I'm not getting to Hellenus, Bulldog.

I'm just not, I mean, there's just,

I know it's his name, he can decide,

but it can't believe that it's easy enough to say.

It's easy enough to say.

I will hold up the Hellenus side of things.

Can't believe that.

I will do it.

There's another guy in the league, right,

with the same name, it's pronounced the proper way.

The proper way we're going with now.

Yes, you are so righteous about this stuff.

I don't know why people don't come along.

Here is C-A-P Capaccio.

Sal Capaccio with this, that's got to be right, Bulldog.

There's no other way to pronounce that name.

Sal, with us on the Western Hotline.

Do you have a story about your name, by the way,

like the family story about how?

I used to not be able to say it very well.

Sal's name?

Yeah, I feel like I used to miss,

didn't I used to sort of bot your name a little bit,

or am I misrememberable?

I don't know if you ever did.

Obviously, the one big thing people do is say Carpaccio

because of the meat, right?

People say it all the time.

Oh, yeah, sell Carpaccio.

And I always say, that's the meat.

I don't have an R in my name.

I'm just Carpaccio.

This clip we played just now, Sal, doesn't help.

I know, I know.

But yes, that's right, that's kind of the joke.

But it is true, that does happen.

No, not much of a story, I guess.

And you know, a lot of times when immigrants come over

from certain countries like Italy back in the day,

they might take the name on a town.

There is a town called Carpaccio,

but my family is not from there,

but I believe there is a town in Italy called Carpaccio.

And your family changed your last name at some point?

Yeah, my dad's dad changed.

Parker, two Parker from Parsonski.

That was the name that I think he grew up with.

I think it was while he was alive that they changed the last name.

Okay, names.

Box checked.

Next box.

How do you pronounce Chubb?

Bradley Chubb.

Is there an alternate pronunciation of Chubb?

I don't really want to know.

Unless it's Chubb that we don't know about, right?

I mean, do you want to know what his nickname is on Prof. Ball reference?

I happen to know it.

It's actually also his handle on Twitter and Instagram.

Bulldog?

No Chubb?

You have to know it to know it.

Yeah, no, I don't know.

Astronaut.

Astronaut.

Right.

I'm not really sure why Mike.

You might know the story there.

I don't.

I don't.

I don't.

But it's a good transition from names to this player.

It's a good.

Yeah.

For sure.

For sure.

How do the bills do here?

This is the guy that John L.A. chose instead of Josh Allen in the 2018 draft.

And later said that not taking Josh Allen was a big regret.

But it kind of blamed on the coaching staff.

But it's funny now because obviously, you know, Josh and Bradley Chubb are going to be teammates.

You know, this was not a player that I thought was, you know, the high-end pass rusher that

they could go out and sign.

And, you know, he's not getting the kind of money or a claim or deal that you would see a

Max Crosby or a Trey Hendrickson.

I think that he fits better, you know, with the bills scheme now.

What they're going to do than what it had been.

You know, any talk in the past.

I think you can come in and do that.

Coming off the ACL last year, if you would have said to me last year, would have scared me.

But he did play 17 games last year, which is good.

So yeah, I think you can fit in.

I think it's fine.

It's not a player that I'm, you know, doing cartwheels over.

But it's also not a player that I think will, I think he can help the defense for sure,

given, you know, Jim Leonard, what he wants to do with the defense.

Um, you know, so, you know, he'll fit in just fine.

And, you know, we'll see on this Buffalo Bill squad.

He does have his best two sex season since his rookie year.

His, his best two sex seasons are his last two years healthy in the league eight and a half

last year.

And then 11 before the ACL injury.

But like I said, he's a full, you know, two years removed this coming year of that.

Yeah.

I like how you describe the money.

We, we every year, I think Mike and I were the same way about Palmer.

Like the, the deal comes down and we hear it's 12 million or 13.

And in this case, it's close to 15 million a year.

And Mike says it's big money.

And I'm over here going, it's not, it's like middle class, not big money.

It's a lot of money, but it's not in the NFL big money.

It's big money for who he is.

It's the point really.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Sorry.

And I would say that about this, I think.

I don't know.

I think the money, I think, I guess I disagree.

I think it's about what eight sacks last year should cost you about 15 million a year.

I think I want to say that.

I don't think the contract is outrageous at all or even big money.

So I'm glad we're hashing this out.

I'm sorry we're wasting your time sale.

No, no, it's okay.

And let's, let's remember, it's always the guarantee money that really counts more than anything.

Right guys?

I mean, it's 29 million guaranteed.

So it's less than 10 million a year guaranteed.

So at the end of the day, you know, how many of these guys really see the full number on the contract

that we see the agent give the, you know, reporters and 43.5 is, I'm sure the very top end of what he could make.

But he's actually only getting 29 over three years guaranteed.

And then we'll see how the numbers wash when it comes to cap it, adding in void years, things like that.

I'm going to be, I'd be surprised if it wasn't like, you know, a lower cap it this year, more money down the road.

Like they usually do with these signs.

And how soon can you get out of it if it doesn't go?

Yeah.

Right.

Like how much pain is there a year from now if this, oh, well, that didn't really work.

You know, yeah, that's right.

There is always, sorry to be, this is the, that's the world we live in.

You know, like the Von Miller signs six years, whatever that was, 120 million.

Well, how soon can they get out of it?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Right there.

Like, yay, we signed a guy.

How soon can we get rid of them?

Well, a couple of things from me on this.

I'm not going to try to pretend that I'm the Bradley Chobb expert or anything like this.

But what I've heard about him doesn't sound super good.

But it's a, you know, a big name and you need somebody.

I just, what can you do about this salad?

Rather than draft the right guy, one of these years, the bills are just again chasing some,

an answer at that position and having to pay whether it's a lot or a real lot in,

to a veteran, probably on the downside of each of their respective careers in that,

in that attempt.

So ideally you'd be able to draft somebody who's better and they're here for longer and cost less.

That's what they're always trying to do and that has been hard for them.

Yeah, I mean, the guy that they've been in the best at with that lately has been Greg Russo.

But, you know, Greg Russo isn't, you know, he's not a Max Crosby, of course.

He's not a Trey Hendrix and he's had some nice numbers along the way.

He's had some impactful games, but overall I think you're wanting more in those departments from Greg Russo,

AJ Epinese, a guy that they drafted, had some nice numbers at times, had some plays along the way.

But, you know, you want more a little bit there.

And then now he's going to, he's a free agent now as well, by the way.

Greg Russo is a fine player. He got, you know, he earned, you know, a contract extension.

Nothing wrong with that, but they've taken these swings that really guys who can get after the quarterback,

guys who can put the passer down and that's what they've wanted to do here.

And that's why you've seen Von Miller.

That's why you've seen Joey Bosa.

And honestly, your Bradley Chubb is just in the line of that.

He's not making the same money as those guys, but it feels like that, which is, hey,

we haven't been able to draft and develop that position the way we've wanted to.

So we've had to go out and pay a little bit more, maybe then, you know, we'd want to.

And you know, we'd want to in a different situation to bring in a guy like that.

And you hope that that's Bradley Chubb.

I'm always just really now in a mindset of wondering how these things change with Jim Leonard as the coach and with the new scheme.

Because, you know, we've just been so used to show him with your math scheme.

And then just put this guy here and you know what he's going to do.

I'm just super curious how they use a lot of these guys.

And that's the next kind of challenge and intrigue for me moving forward.

And I think that sort of dovetails right into why if fans are, I mean,

like you have to give the speech every year at this time.

Like you get a long time to put your roster together, right?

It's not all moves that need to be made in the first, you know, 24, 48, 72 hours of free agency.

But I get the sense that the fan base is a little itchy.

And a part of it is, I think largely what you just alluded to, I've got a new scheme on that side of the ball.

I probably am going to need at least, first of all, I have holes that I need to fill.

And I also might need different sorts of players than some players that are here.

And the bills just have not been real, real busy at all here.

I mean, they made the DJ more trade.

They signed a corner to replace Taren Johnson.

I presume, right, the other day.

And now this, and that's really it.

Like it does.

So, you know, the idea of like the linebacker from Kansas City, Shenal.

Like he signs up modest contrary and watching, like, oh, how come we didn't do that?

How come we didn't do that?

And there's just not a lot happening to sort of fill in what-

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But is, you know, going to be a new scheme and I think that's got a lot of us maybe kind

of just, what are we doing?

Are you going to get busy rebuilding this roster?

What?

Yeah, I mean, as it currently stands, there are still, by my count, 11, actually 12 now

because Bale Inspector, he was, you know, not given a tender, but he's a guy that counts

here too.

It looks like 11, 12 unrestricted free agents still on the defensive side, one only two

on the offensive side, guys, which is crazy, right?

And that's because that they've kind of leaned into.

We're going to overhaul a lot of this.

You know, we're going to have different players there.

And that doesn't even include the guys who've already left, which is, you know, Cam Lewis,

Darnell Savage, so a couple of them.

So you're really talking about, you know, a turnover of maybe 14 players here that we're

on the roster.

There won't be on the roster again next year on the offensive side.

That is not the case.

I mean, they have signed, they have traded for DJ Moore and they have signed Kyle Allen.

Otherwise, they brought back Alec Anderson.

They brought back today, Ryan Vandermark, the only two unrestricted free agents on the

roster as of today are Brandon Cooks and Gabe Davis.

They did lose Reggie Gilliam and Dave Edwards, of course, right?

So the offensive side is very much intact and they have the offensive coordinator now being

the head coach.

The deep ends of side, this is where it's been trending for months now, which is, look,

they have some players there, they're going to retain, but by and large, a lot of the

roster is just going to get turned over.

You and I talked at the time of the DJ Moore trade and I brought up drafting a wide receiver

with the first round pick now that you've made this move with your second.

And I said, no way you said, don't entirely want to rule it out.

If I remember correctly, Bulldog is also a no on this.

One question edge rusher after this trade, I would not want to rule it out.

You said also you would not want to rule it out.

How about you sell?

I would not rule it out.

I would say there's a big caveat here, though.

I don't know.

We would really have to pen what they feel about Michael Hoyt's health, how quickly can

he come back, how impactful can he be, how early?

If the answer to that is, yeah, we're really not sure.

I definitely wouldn't rule it out.

If the answer to that is, no, we're pretty confident.

He's going to be back.

He'll be fine.

I would not rule it out.

I still wouldn't rule it out, but I think it would be less likely of a chance.

Michael Hoyt is going to be a really important player for them.

They just paid Greg or so.

He's going to be an important player.

Now they have Bradley Chubb.

The other guys don't really totally move the needle in this regard for me, right?

Which is Lane and Jackson coming off the injury.

They do have Andre Jones Jr. on the roster.

And then Javon Solomon, who I told you guys the other day, was interesting to me that Brandon

being brought him up to unprompted at the combine, but I don't think that that means

that he's some big role.

So definitely you could use a fourth guy there, but you also have a few guys who will be

in the mix kind of to be the fourth guy there.

It really kind of depends to me on how healthy they feel Michael Hoyt is going to be.

Sal Capaccio on the Western hotline.

Are you done over there with the bills because I want to get to Crosby?

I can be.

I mean, Crosby needs maybe needs the rest of the segment.

And we were talking about this earlier, Sal, you know, and the whole intrigue.

I guess the Ravens GM is speaking now, by the way, but the intrigue around, like the

physical and is it a reasonable thing for the Ravens to back out of the trade because

the player couldn't pass a physical given that he had knee surgery, what, eight weeks

ago.

I think I read.

And Bulldog said in the course of the conversation, what does failing a physical this

time of year even mean?

Let you know the answer to that.

I mean, are there different physicals based on whether you're coming off a certain kind

of injury or anything else that goes into what, what are teams trying to find out this

early in the, in the off season, but it's not always that necessarily that early in the

process.

Of course, free agency is underway.

Well, the physical can be different for every team.

They're just trying to find out how healthy the person is, especially when you are coming

off an injury.

They're going to, you know, check on specifically that injury short term, long term.

We've heard a little bit about that today, like, where is he short term?

Where is he going to be long term?

How comfortable are we, you know, with bringing this player in?

A lot of times this happens when you sign a player, like the bills, you know, they signed

or they agreed it terms of D Alfred.

What when D Alfred gets the buffalo, take a physical before they actually sign a contract

with him.

We've seen that before guys fail a physical so they don't actually, you know, play.

I, I just think this, this particular case kind of smells a little bit to me a little

bit different.

And I don't like it.

I think the Ravens, they kind of play the game here the way I can see it.

And the reason is guys have been in this league long enough to know how information gets

disseminated around each team and how teams kind of find things out.

There's enough information on Max Crosby's knee and there should have been available to

the Baltimore Ravens where they should not have been taken by this huge surprise suddenly

about this knee and where he is.

The doctor, apparently that performed the surgery, I believe is the Cowboys doctor, Dr. Cooper,

who also works on other players.

And that's the key there to think about.

Like these doctors, they share information and I know we can talk about HIPAA and stuff

like that.

But that's what happens when you go to the combine.

You go to the combine.

It's a team of doctors, different guys from different clubs are checking on guys.

There is a lot of information that all these teams have access to.

They play, they talk with each other all the time.

That's why you felt and that's why you saw yesterday, the Ravens kind of blaming the

Raiders a little bit, a little bit overnight last night, that they didn't disclose this

or that.

No, I'm not buying it.

I think the Baltimore Ravens saw the market for Trey Hendrix in coming down and said,

you know, well, we might have a little bit of an out here.

We can kind of go get that guy and not give up the picks and pay maybe less money here.

So let's go do that.

That's what I think happened.

It appears the GM here is going hard.

The Ravens GM, who's like Mike said, speaking of Costa, thank you.

With the story that they wanted to have both guys on the team.

They were talking to Hendrix in before they knew that Crosby was going to have the failed

physical and I don't know.

That to me is the smelliest piece of this whole thing.

See, that justifies your shifter take now, right?

Because shifters representing that Hendrix in thought he was going to play with Crosby

or that he might have.

Absolutely.

He was told to say that by the team.

I think that's the Ravens position is that they were going for both guys.

Right.

I think that's insane sale.

My mom wouldn't think you could pay two edgers shirts 30 million a year and have a 50 million

dollar quarterback.

I mean, what are we doing?

No, that's right.

They've lost some guys on offense.

They lost a center.

I believe that it's a guard.

They lost a tight end.

They lost their full back.

And they're going to pay all this money to edgers.

And like you said, so Lamar Jackson and you had a little bit of trouble protecting him

last year and keeping him healthy, I will tell you that I can guarantee you people around

the league are just not happy.

And I know we've seen some of that, they've been, you know, some reporting about that.

There are there are reasons sometimes to back out of a trade because of a physical.

I sure that can happen.

There's no doubt.

Like a guy can, you can make a trade.

The guy goes in, you're like, you know what, this guy, we didn't, you know, know about

this.

So we're going to fail the physical.

That has happened.

I'm saying in this particular case, I don't believe that happened quite like that.

This is too high profile of a player, too high profile of a move to make without knowing

all of the information that the Raven should have.

And I think did know, but then saw that other thing happening over here and going, wait a

minute, do we really need to do this?

We have an out here.

And for them to basically screw the Raiders over this now, which is the Raiders have all

these agreements with guys that they're going to sign contracts to thinking they have $30

million off their books, by the way.

Now they have to come back and fit those guys in, thinking they have two extra firsts

around pick.

So now they're operating through free agency thinking that way.

Now they don't have that.

I just think it smells.

We as a group, not ruling out the bills drafting an edge rusher at pick 26 are ruling out

the bills trading for Max Crosby after this signing today.

I am.

Yes.

What have gotten off the ground as a topic?

Yeah.

The bills are a classic example of a team that you might think would do that.

Yeah.

Especially if you were going to pay two thirds of the price that originally Baltimore had

paid, which I think was completely plausible.

Like if Baltimore was willing to pay that, then it would make sense that no team is going

to answer the phone and go, yo, you want the same deal?

Sure.

I'll make the same deal now.

Forget it.

You got the Raiders over a barrel.

If they want to move the player, they would do it for less.

But yeah, I wouldn't think the bills are in on that now because they've made their move.

Funny how I would agree.

I would agree with that unless he came at a really cheap price, but I mean, I don't think

the Raiders just going to give him away.

It does kind of feel a little weird though and odd like it's just like that Max Crosby

doesn't want to be there.

I know he went back today and there's all these stories about oh harmony and all that.

It just doesn't feel like it's going to end with Max Crosby still being a Las Vegas

Raider this year.

Well, I saw this from Albert Brear.

Maybe you did too between and including the years 2010 to 2019, a decade, 29 quarterbacks

were drafted in the first round, three remain with their original team.

Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen, the Mar Jackson, that's the list.

Every other quarterback in a decade drafted in the first round is on a new team, capped

by Kyler Murray, who will not be back with Arizona.

We don't exactly know where everybody seems to think

the Vikings.

So how about that?

Wow.

What a different time we live in, right?

I mean, maybe this was more commonplace than I'm thinking back in the day, so to speak,

but it feels like it's not.

And maybe the reason was because now you have the first round slotted contracts, right?

Where back years ago, I think maybe Stafford was the last guy that got like that draft 2012,

might have been the last time they had like, you know, no kind of slotting of the draft

picks.

It was so, so prohibitive to move off a player, which it just isn't now.

If he's not, if he's not the guy and he doesn't hit, okay, he's like any other rookies,

not just a quarterback.

He, no matter what position he plays, he's making the same money.

You feel like that?

Yeah, you drafted him.

Sam Bradford is a name that comes to mind because like when that wasn't going well for

him, it was like, yeah, but they, they're going to be like 56 million, this is way back

then of dead money and like, that's untalable.

We just can't do it.

We're stuck.

It's like, it used to be like probably four years and now it's two.

Like, if they didn't work in after two, you're out.

We're going to move on, we're going to pivot to someone else that's got to be a big part

of it.

That recent guys here, especially just teams don't have the patience for it, but you're

not hitting.

We're pivoting.

It's a really interesting thing to analyze.

It would be a little bit of a sample size thing to pick out that block of time, but it

is still interesting.

Is it the, the massiveness of the, you know, the scrutiny and the new cycles and everything?

I mean, coaches get how long when they get a quarterback at the three years at the most

maybe to win with.

Right.

We also did have one of these other guys that is not on as original team just win the Super

Bowl MVP for his 15, 14, whatever that is.

So, hey, wasn't the Super Bowl MVP though?

No, you're right.

You're right.

I saw him in the distance.

By the way, his running bag was.

That's right.

There is kind of a fourth guy now though.

In who?

Gino Smith.

Oh, he's back with the Jets.

Not a first round pick.

Oh, crap.

You're right, Mike.

Sorry.

I thought I'd get one right.

He is back with his original team.

Good job.

Good effort, Sal.

Yeah, there you go.

Are the bills.

What is your source told you about the bill's chances of playing Thanksgiving Eve?

Which by the way, I didn't even know that was a name thing Thanksgiving Eve.

I was just called it the night before Thanksgiving, but we might have that this year.

Nothing yet.

I have not backed it on that, but Matt and I will definitely be efforting to get Mike

North this year.

We'll talk with him about that.

One of the many new things that come up every year when it comes to the schedule.

So, we'll ask him about that.

That's a Wednesday night.

I mean, the NFL might play Wednesday night week one, and they might play Wednesday night

Thanksgiving now.

I mean, you know, we're getting to the point of it's going to be seven nights a week here

at some point.

Wednesday night week one, Australia.

Well, I don't exactly know how they're going to do it, but because of Australia and because

of the opening for the stadium with, you know, an stadium with the Seahawks, like, yeah,

I guess it could be the day they would do that.

Yeah, Wednesday there, Thursday, the Super Bowl thing, and then Friday with that's been

Brazil.

It's not.

It's not a Friday game.

It's not a Friday game this year.

Okay.

Right.

Something to do with the calendar.

All right.

It's because of the.

The act that was passed way back a long time ago in the 60s, maybe, and starting the second

Friday of September, NFL teams cannot play on Friday nights and through, like, November,

like Thanksgiving, basically.

Right.

Because of your high school football.

And last year would have been the first Friday of September.

Correct.

Yeah.

So later this year, because Labor Day is those ladies that can be last September, eighth

date.

Right.

Right.

It's exactly right.

Any questions for us?

How, uh, dialed in?

Are you on this baseball Italian American game last night?

And I guess do they play again tonight?

I think I don't even know what was going on.

It started.

It'll be plays Mexico tonight and because of the way the US handled things and misunderstood,

the tie breakers, they need the, I'm not sure everything.

I saw something about it.

They need Mexico to score five runs and they will advance, um, and lose, and, and lose

the lose.

Yeah.

Italy needs to win and Mexico needs to score five runs.

Sal, come on.

You're September 7th is Labor Day.

It's the, the, the first Monday of September.

Sorry.

Sal, you're rooting for Italy.

Come on.

Right?

No.

It's cool if they win.

I mean, I guess America against the Americans.

You win root for Italy.

Okay.

No, but it's cool.

I'd be like, yeah, I mean, I'll root for them if they're not playing the Americans.

I want to see the Americans win.

For folks who don't know to fill it out, the manager of the US team went on a TV show

on MLB network yesterday talking about how they were going to take it easy last night

because they're, they're set.

They're through to the next round and they don't, so I'm going to give guys a day off

and all this sort of stuff.

And he botched it.

They needed, it turns out they needed the game and they've left themselves in a position

where they need help now to advance.

Who is it?

Mark De Rosa?

De Rosa.

That's the guy.

Yes.

In the Olympic hockey, Italy was one, remember when Italy played Sweden, I think it was

like, yeah, I'm all into it.

Let's see this.

Cool.

Right.

But I mean, Italy's playing Team USA.

I'm not going to root for Italy, but it'd be a cool story, of course, you know, and that's

cool to see.

Okay.

Thanks for your time today.

And we'll see if anything else breaks tomorrow.

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I think if I had like deep roots heritage from another country, like a European country,

that country versus Team USA in sports, I probably root for that country.

Yeah.

I think I would.

We win enough.

Maybe not in something like the Olympic hockey tournament.

Yeah.

But world baseball classic, I'd have to think about it.

Yeah.

I would need the roots to really know, and I don't, I don't, I mean, I'm, I'm, you

know, generation.

Multiple generation for move from Europe, Poland versus Team USA in baseball.

I mean, you're not really rooting for USA either.

They're not really watching.

I don't, yeah.

Don't care that much.

I only know all this about what we just talked about just because it seemed kind of funny

to me.

The manager didn't know the rules.

Yeah.

It has not gone great.

Maybe not funny.

Ha, ha.

But, you know, embarrassing.

Yes.

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I talked to other teams that were involved in the Max Crosby talks everyone said his age

in C.J. LeBoy and Doug Anderson were up front.

Listen, he's not going to be cleared until June.

He's not going to do anything in the spring, but he'll be ready to roll before the start

of next season.

The Raven saw something that made them nervous about the long term health of Max Crosby's

knee.

Tom Pelicero, the Ravens, I can't say finalize, but make the trade with the Raiders for Max Crosby

then last night pull out and opening the doors for themselves to sign Trey Hendricks

in away from Cincinnati.

One report says that Crosby was in the building in Baltimore when the Ravens went and flirted

with Hendricks.

So yeah, that's a weird one.

We talked about it with Sal, I sort of don't buy it either, like maybe Baltimore changed

its mind given that Hendricksson didn't sign anywhere for a couple days and it was within

their rights to do this and that it looks bad that they did it.

But then what?

What happens next to the Ravens?

I could totally buy, to me it's a very plausible scenario where the people in charge like the

front office, whatever, whoever's at the level that needed to be involved in this conversation,

maybe ownership, they're sitting around and like, oh yeah, we can, we, we, we are options,

right?

Hendricksson's still out there, that's going to be cheaper, we don't have to burn the

two number one picks.

It's going to look bad, how bad, right?

You know, can we come up with a story that some people will believe, which I think is

what's happening now, with this nonsense about how we were going to have both of them

on the team, which I just don't buy for a second, but that's just me, right?

But even still, like Tom Palasaro and Diana Rousini and like everybody is going to yell,

maybe, I don't know that these people are all yelling, Tom Palasaro, that wasn't exactly

yelling there, but you know what I'm saying, we're going to, we're going to take some shots,

right?

We're going to be firing at us, questioning our integrity that we did this.

But if we have a plausible enough story, who cares if Chris Parker and Buffalo, New York

buys it, like some people will believe us.

And even if they don't, when it's all done, when the dust has settled, the Max Crosby

is still playing for the Raiders or some other team and we've got Trey Hendricksson, what

is going to be the fallout?

There won't be any, there absolutely will not be any, what's funny or not funny, when

you think about like the reaction to it, Brandon Bean, you know what Q rating means, do

people still use Q rating?

I don't know.

Like it's just sort of your level of popularity on some kind of scale.

Bean for almost the entire time he's been here, I mean, they made the playoffs right

away, the Alan Draft, home run, Grand Slam, like from 17 or even, like 19, it starts

to escalate through 22, 23 before the wide receiver train stuff, kind of the more pushback

then.

But for most of his time in Buffalo, you know, very well liked, and I think well respected.

Then that started to turn a little bit.

And now it seems like almost anything they do is met with what happened to Brandon Bean.

Bean was talking that one day at a press conference recently about needing to have someone

in the room to stop him.

And that person maybe has left the building permanently, I don't know, like these moves

are all to me, not moves that really show much restraint.

But if he does this, that's what I'm getting to, if he pulls the Ravens act, trades for

Crosby, we spend two days, the sabers can wait.

This is two first round picks for the premier edge rusher in the league, arguably.

Wow, what a move.

Not everybody would have liked it.

I thought it was crazy that the Ravens would give up two ones for him.

So I would have probably, it's harder when it's your team, but that's how I would have,

I wouldn't have loved the move, but it would have been super sexy.

And we're all talking about Brandon Bean, his Brandon Bean back, all of that is he

back.

And then he does what the Ravens did, and they pull the rug out from Crosby and sign

Hendrickson.

And then we all watched the league and all the fans around the league lose their minds

over it.

Like what a dirty pool kind of move this is, and I think then is when Bean is back.

If he does that thing, right, that, oh, you're not supposed to be able to do that.

Aha, but our guy did it.

That would have brought him back into the good race.

I totally agree.

Totally agree.

And I don't, I do not think that this will stick to the Ravens in any real functional

way.

And that doesn't mean that people around the league aren't suspicious about what they

did, um, nor like maybe feel like some degree of, you know, a lack of respect.

Like you might not choose to have to deal with the guy or the team.

But if you have to, what are you going to say to your assistant, all right, I'm going

to call Baltimore.

And then you're going to call, I mean, it's going to be like talking to like your ex-girlfriend

or something.

How to go?

It was okay.

It was fine.

We made a deal.

It was a second for Kyle Hamilton or whatever.

Like when, if you need to do business, you're going to do, you're going to get over whatever

personal problem you might have had objection.

You may have had without Baltimore handled this.

You might even envy him in the end because they got away with it, you know, I wonder if

there is any, I mean, I don't know the ins and outs of, I mean, I know what's allowed

and what's not to some extent as far as legal tampering and whatnot.

But it didn't always used to be that the tampering period meant deals were announced.

It meant teams could talk to guys.

That's what that two day period was waiting for Wednesday.

And then at some point in the lifetime of our show, that it's, it started like, you

got a few things trickled and now everything just gets announced on Monday.

It just all gets announced and maybe they got to put that, put that genie back in the

bottle because of something like this.

You don't want to have, because some, some team, right, we opened today talking about this

idea that Trapaso had, he was in here one to three the last couple of weeks co-hosting

with Nate Geary mostly and conspiracy theory, like, did they intentionally try to damage

the market and then try to capitalize on it later?

Like, I don't, I don't think that that's what happened here.

But some team could try to do that now, like, I'm going to try, I'm going to try to manipulate

the market in some way in my favor and, and just because Baltimore got away, what?

My, my, what?

We had, we got a medical lake to stand on over here, we don't, we're not going to pass

this player.

I don't know, maybe something could change structurally with the way this whole window

opens in the legal tampering period because this has happened, but I predict Baltimore

is just one of 32 in a couple of weeks.

What conspiracy theory would you take to that party?

What would be yours?

You said that his friends have to, like, prove it, try to prove it.

I think you, yeah, the idea is that the party is everyone that makes a presentation, basically.

Okay.

And you can, you can get as far as slide show, I don't know, overhead projector, maybe

you could prepare a show of us out of order, could you prepare a film strip, uh, PowerPoint.

I just had to get, I have a favorite, I had to get film strip in there.

Um, I don't know that I have a, a top of mind.

I not only have a favorite, the, I have no doubt everybody in the room, everybody would

believe it.

We were a JFK fan.

I am a JFK assassination buff, but I have 0% belief that there was a conspiracy in that

case.

None.

I used to, it's easy to do it.

Right.

That throw about a, throw out a bunch of names and ideas and that just sort of stop talking.

Oh, all right.

Well, it's probably right.

No, uh, it would be watergate.

Hear me out.

I'll just do a short version of it.

I know this is going to sound nuts.

Wait.

Okay.

Go ahead.

It's going to sound nuts.

The president of the United States hires a group of people that kind of work at the

White House to ransack buildings and bug phones and threaten enemies and eventually go

as far as to bug the Democratic National Headquarters twice.

Second time they get caught.

No one would believe that the president, in this case, Richard Nixon would be involved

in this guy.

I'm saying he was.

I'm saying there was a conspiracy at the highest level.

I know it sounds nuts, right?

Why would the president bother with such nonsense?

I believe he did.

And I think it could get to the point where if enough people believe it, he could resign.

That's my conspiracy.

I bet I could convince all of Christopher Pazzo's friends and probably most challenging of

all Chris, super smart guy that, that I'm right.

And that this was a conspiracy.

I want to check.

I don't have time to Google right now, but I think all of that was proven to be true.

Well, I'm telling so I don't know what you're saying much of a conspiracy theory.

I think people, people went to jail.

I think, yeah, right?

So it's not a conspiracy theory.

It's well, when does it not become why is it not a theory anymore?

Because people were arrested.

Well, that doesn't have to be right.

Yeah, but people go to jail all the time for not doing anything.

I think it can still be called a theory.

I think I think theory is doing a lot of heavy living, that's what I'm saying.

I just don't definitely was a conspiracy definition.

I think it was proven to be one, therefore no longer a theory.

We are going to even be willing to pay these people from a slush fund,

from the committee to reelect the president.

No one will see it coming.

They'll never find out.

We're going to pay these the plumbers because they fill the leaks.

They plug the leaks.

We're going to pay these people hundreds of thousands of dollars from the slush fund.

To help cover, keep this thing covered up again, it'll definitely work.

Pretty sure all that happened.

Yeah.

Well, see, I've already, I'm not sure I've convinced you, but you believe this too.

That's the one you could go to Chris's party with, although I'm already claiming it.

If somebody going to his party, I love this.

I don't think you tell.

I don't think you're playing the game correctly.

I'm totally, what do you mean?

Just because there were consequences that you think are like, that means they really happen.

That doesn't mean it wasn't a conspiracy or a theory.

If one of those guys at his party needs one, there it is.

There's, there's instant wind.

You can have it.

You can use that as Dan Hager once said, don't, don't, don't, don't.

You can use that.

I'm just giving it to you for free.

Take it.

If you need to look up any of that stuff, go for it.

That's easy to do.

Bulldog seems to know everything about it.

He's done the work.

He's done his own research.

All right.

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