SI.com takes a look at the winners and losers of the first week of NFL free agency.
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00:00 All right, we're about a week into the 2020 free agency.
00:03 Tom Brady's on a new team.
00:05 We've seen some trades.
00:06 We've seen Ryan Tannehill get BOKU dollars.
00:08 But first, I want to talk to the MMQB's Connor Orr,
00:11 who wrote a piece about the winners and losers
00:14 through the first week of free agency.
00:16 Connor, let's get right to it.
00:17 Who's the biggest winner in your eyes?
00:20 Well, I mean, you mentioned Ryan Tannehill there.
00:22 I mean, if you look at the quarterback market
00:24 and how it shook out, there's a lot of high upside people.
00:27 Jameis Winston is still on the market.
00:29 Cam Newton, as of the recording of this video,
00:32 hasn't been signed anywhere.
00:34 And yet, Ryan Tannehill gets a four-year deal
00:36 with guarantees on par with quarterbacks like Russell
00:40 Wilson.
00:40 He's up in the top 10 now in average per year salary.
00:43 So you have to like it if you're Tannehill,
00:46 especially when there's a rumor that your team might
00:48 have been chasing Tom Brady.
00:49 But instead, the minute after the CBA is ratified,
00:52 you sign a four-year deal.
00:53 And after your career might have ended kind of prematurely
00:56 in Miami.
00:56 So Ryan Tannehill, definitely one of the big winners there.
01:00 Absolutely.
01:00 Tannehill goes into 2020 with the seventh highest salary
01:03 at the quarterback position.
01:05 What a plot twist there.
01:06 Now, looking at the other end of this spectrum,
01:08 who's the biggest loser throughout the first week
01:10 of free agency?
01:11 Well, I mean, I had a couple of people there.
01:14 I mean, certainly the NFL just optically
01:16 for having free agency.
01:17 I think that while there are more evils in the world
01:20 for people to focus on, the fact that you're
01:23 having all these players sign these large deals at a time
01:26 when people are dealing with the health
01:28 pandemic and the very real financial threat
01:31 of a medical crisis like this, I don't think that--
01:34 the optics there are very kind to the NFL.
01:37 And on their side, they're thinking
01:38 that they're helping people.
01:39 I mean, we saw that quote from Roger Goodell
01:41 earlier this week, where he thought
01:44 that he was helping get people through the pandemic, which
01:46 I think seems a little tone deaf at this point.
01:48 But if you're looking for an NFL football-focused loser,
01:51 I mean, I don't think it gets any worse than Bill O'Brien
01:54 trading away DeAndre Hopkins and getting less than the Vikings
01:58 got for Stephen Diggs.
02:00 That's going to be a rough one, tough one to live down there.
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