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00:00Okay, so let's talk about the Cousins situation.
00:07Yeah, yeah.
00:10First of all, let me explain the contract because I think some people are confused.
00:14Next year, his base salary is actually very reasonable, $27.5 million.
00:18It's fully guaranteed.
00:19They're not going to cut him.
00:20They'll look to move him the best way that they can.
00:22He also has a $10 million roster bonus that becomes fully guaranteed in March.
00:26So you're really trading $37.5 million.
00:29Now, other teams that will be interested, and there will be teams interested, Scott.
00:34Looking around the league, and I put my list together, there are seven teams that I've
00:37talked to who cannot tell you exactly who their starting quarterback is going to be
00:41next year.
00:42And we'll talk more about this as we go forward.
00:44But there are only two quarterbacks who are going to go in the first round in this year,
00:48this coming draft in 2025 in May, Cam Ward, the Miami quarterback, and Shador Sanders
00:54of Colorado.
00:55That's it right now.
00:56So there's just not enough good quarterbacks to go around.
00:59I know Cousins is wildly consistent, terrible over the last five games.
01:02Before that, actually playing pretty well.
01:04But the Falcons here are saying, look, it didn't work.
01:09When you bench a quarterback who's making over $60 million with everything that was
01:14due to him this season, they're telling you what they think.
01:17They're done with him.
01:18They're going to Michael Penix, who shocked us when you and I were doing the draft cards.
01:21We were shocked at that draft pick.
01:24But now's the time.
01:26I know publicly they'll never admit that, hey, it's the Giants, but it is the Giants.
01:30They're at home.
01:31This is a game, by the way, the Giants have 20 players, Scott, on their injury report.
01:37This is a good game for Penix to do well in his first appearance as a starting quarterback.
01:43He's a super aggressive thrower, Scott.
01:45That's what the Falcons and other teams like.
01:47By the way, the Raiders loved him for this draft, this past draft.
01:51I'm looking for Penix to do very well in his first start.
01:53And they are loaded, by the way, in offense.
01:55They've got to get Kyle Pitts the football, and that starts against those Giants.
01:58All right, so, and I still think they stink.
02:01The Buccaneers are way better.
02:02The Buccaneers are going to win the division.