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00:00But Donnie, let's get to some NFL news and notes yesterday
00:03We have often said the Cincinnati Bengals not exactly the most lavish franchise
00:08They have not necessarily been the most prudent in how they've handled their finances over the last few off seasons
00:16Disastrous off seasons really in the last few years in Cincy and yet they told us this time around don't fret
00:22We're gonna pay everybody. We know we have a lot of tabs coming due at the same time
00:26Don't worry T. Higgins might be tagged long-term extension Jamar chase highest paid non-quarterback ever for sure
00:33Trey Hendrickson sack leader in the NFL this past year defensive player of the year runner-up
00:37You're gonna get your money too and Donnie
00:40We always said we're slightly hesitant because that would mean trusting the Bengals at their word
00:46We were correct to have some skepticism in a meeting
00:49Where Trey Hendrickson flew to Cincinnati and talked about his future with the franchise the Bengals have given Hendrickson
00:56permission to seek a
00:59Trade a disaster in Cincy once again, you know, we'll see what they get for a draft compensation
01:05But it is interesting where your defense is really bad
01:08you have one of the best sack guys in the NFL and I just don't really know if we want to pay him because it's
01:11All about the bottom dollar in Cincinnati
01:14and this isn't just start in a couple years like the Brown family's been in control for the Brent for the
01:18Bengals since the Bengals inception in the AFL slash NFL but understand this too. Let's go back
01:242025 years Carson Palmer starting quarterback for the Bengals like I hate it here and that cool sit out because we're not gonna trade you
01:30At all now a year later. The Raiders bailed them out with multiple first-round draft picks
01:34They made the trade but the Brown organization is basically saying themselves to say the Brown family is saying, you know
01:40What bottom dollar will still make money regardless of any of these football players play and we can't resign everybody
01:46You can you see everybody around the league?
01:47All it takes is an owner that's willing to put up the signing bonus, which means hey Joe Burrow paid you a lot of money
01:52Let's restructure your contract give you even more front-loaded money so we can include other players
01:57You're now looking at a defense that cut multiple players multiple players have retired off of that defense and now you're saying, okay
02:03Let's bring back T Higgins Jamar chase and Joe Burrow
02:06Good luck next year at eight and nine where Burrow's like damn it
02:09I scored 45 points and we still lost this game. That sounds like it's gonna happen again next year in Cincinnati
02:15Gonna have to score six or seven touchdowns every game
02:18Just to have a chance if this is where the offseason is going Sam Hubbard retires Trey Hendrickson
02:25Might be on his way out. This doesn't feel like a posturing or negotiating tactic
02:30This feels like a guy at Hendrickson who has asked for an extension each of the last few years and then backed it up
02:38With high-level performance 17 and a half sacks this year and last year and finished runner-up in DP
02:45Oh, why still can't get his money from a porous?
02:49Defense a year ago more NFL headlines up next live right here on your list
02:55So when the Bengals tell you who they are
02:58Believe them because it does not mean they will put pay and extend Trey Hendrickson
03:03Despite telling everybody early in the offseason and having their quarterback campaign for it that that would be the case Trey Hendrickson that
03:11NFL defensive player of the year runner-up
03:13the NFL's sack leader from a season ago has been given permission by the Bengals to seek a
03:20Trade with Johnny. I think should call it a question. What since these other plans are this offseason?
03:25How are they going to build a defense under al golden Jermaine Pratt? He's also one of their defensive leaders
03:32He's not happy
03:33He demanded a trade earlier this offseason T Higgins not thrilled with being placed on the franchise tag for a second
03:40straight year and Jamar Chase is probably looking around like all of this is happening and we're still worlds apart in terms of the
03:48Contract that I want to get done where the Bengals have now looked at Max Crosby
03:52Becoming the highest paid defensive player ever the highest paid non quarterback ever and have to either fork that money up if Hendrickson would ever
04:00Remain in the organization and now fork up even more money to make Jamar Chase the promised
04:06non-quarterback highest paid player ever
04:09Yeah, imagine if let's just say over the past two years
04:11He assigned T Higgins to market value knowing that the salary caps gonna go up in the next couple years once you get the new
04:17CBAs out there that's understandable, but signing them sooner than later always saves you a lot of money
04:22So let's just say you could have saved per year five million dollars on T Higgins contract and then Jamar Chase
04:27He signed him last year instead of this year. Let's just say another five million dollars a year
04:31That's ten million dollars a year now also understand this there's big money out there
04:35So every year what good teams do when the rate in the middle of when they think they can make Super Bowl runs with a talented
04:42Roster they continue to restructure those guys push more fun money up front to them
04:47So they're happy which gives you more
04:49Flexibility in your payroll to go out and get more good players for your team
04:52And again, once that goes down, it's like hey, you know, you need a year or two to get out from under that salary cap
04:57That's what happens here, but the Cincinnati Bengals do everything backwards. They don't sign their young talent
05:02They don't want to pay them
05:03They hold that franchise tag over the head and say you'll pay for that you'll play for this and if you don't want to sit
05:09Out we don't care if it actually affects us on the field
05:11That's a rare organization in the NFL whose most ownership groups have enough money to handle their business
05:16And the reason why they're in it is not because my dad passed it over to me
05:20It was I am a billionaire businessman. I understand what's good for business, but at the same time
05:24I didn't necessarily buy the
05:27Franchise because I needed to pad my wallet
05:29It's more of a status symbol going the better that team is here when I drive around and you know
05:34Oh my god, or my Rolls-Royce and I pull up with a Super Bowl ring in that room
05:38Everybody knows who I am because this is what I do for fun. Not my day job the Brown family
05:43I think every single person in their family works for the Cincinnati Bengals and is on the payroll here
05:49they're just doing things backward and it's a shame because you want to talk about the Cincinnati Bengals and say
05:54Imagine if like this ownership group and family just sold the team to a conglomerate with billions of dollars all the money you would have
06:01In that great organization. You don't want to waste Joe Burrow. You don't want to waste you more chase
06:05You don't want to waste see Higgins. You want to Henderson's back. You want to add to that defense?
06:09You want to feel that you're in it year to year because now it seems like they're gone
06:12We'll give you guys what you want. You want to take and chase and burrow?
06:15Well, I can't afford anybody else, but you fans got we went that's not the way it's supposed to work in the NFL
06:21Not at all and it's really disappointing for a very talented Bengals roster that has proven
06:26They can contend for Lombardi trophies and knock off the Chiefs and win the AFC
06:31Championship and yet will not have the funding and resources we would believe to become a legitimate contender once again
06:38They might be able to score 45 every single game. We're not sure it's going to be enough
06:43It's gonna be fun though bet a lot of overs when it comes to the Bengals
06:47Once again, the Jaguars making some interesting moves yesterday as well trading away Christian Kirk to divisional foe
06:53Houston for a seventh rounder in return in
06:562026 releasing two-time Pro Bowl tight end Evan Ingram also parting way with a bunch of other players on the roster
07:03Josh Reynolds Ronald Darby on the defensive side even Devin Duvernay the talented kick return
07:09Specialist Liam Cohen coming in there and making some changes to how that roster looks
07:15By the way Kirk going over to Houston
07:17I like that move a lot because when you have a set up here with already a number one
07:21What are you looking for around them tank dog got injured last year. You need speed around Nico Collins
07:26I like that move a lot
07:26But you say to yourself Jackson put all that talent on the roster the past couple years didn't amount to all that much
07:32I don't mind a new general manager and a new head coach coming to town saying let me get my guys that are going to
07:38Fit my system here and we'll be a better franchise for it
07:40You already saw that with the same AFC opponent there in the Chargers. You know what?
07:44We have a talented roster hasn't worked out. Let me clean house a little bit get my foundation set and move forward
07:49I don't mind when Lee and Coleman the Jacksonville Jaguars are doing they lost some talented players
07:53But they're setting up their franchise for success by getting the players. They feel we'll be able to buy into the new system
07:59It's what you want to see out of a new regime. It's what the commanders did last year
08:03They bring back Bobby Wagner on a one-year eight million dollar fully guaranteed deal. At least that eight mil is
08:10Guaranteed maybe some more NFL
08:13Our number two welcome to it live right here on this Friday on the early line on sports grid
08:19He is Donnie
08:20I am bent a lot to get into here in this second hour a ton of hoops focus playing one of our favorite games by
08:28Orsell will have more NFL headlines from what has been a busy week ahead of the official start of the league year
08:34Next week in that legal tampering negotiating window opening up opening up for free agency on
08:41Monday speaking of moves and maneuvers
08:43It's trade deadline day in the NHL Chris Meaney from the National Hockey League
08:48We'll join us a little bit later on in this second hour to talk all about that and the stretch run on
08:54The ice a jam-packed second hour it is the second hour if you're on Friday on the early line
09:02Absolutely excited for this second hour right here. And by the way
09:05Free agency technically beginning on Monday where the tampering can start happening
09:09You're gonna see a flurry of deals come down this weekend from players already under contract with their team getting extensions and also
09:16Shoring up that a guy doesn't reach free agency
09:18The Buffalo Bills just signed Terrell Bernard four years fifty million dollar contract with twenty five million dollars guaranteed get used to that because
09:26smart spend smart organizations
09:29Understand. All right, free agency starts Monday. Let's wrap up all of our business internally
09:34So, you know exactly what we're working with and not saying hey go test the waters in free agency
09:40Oh, no, we didn't sign anybody because we waited on you to come back to us and he signed with somebody else now
09:44We're left out good organizations like the Buffalo Bills taking care of their players wide receiver now a linebacker
09:49Let's see what they do entering into free agency
09:51But get ready for a flurry of deals this weekend and a lot of money tossed around
09:56Took the words right out of my mouth DRS Terrell Bernard a four-year fifty million dollar deal as DRS just said to remain in
10:03Buffalo again what good organizations do they have foresight to extend and pay their players rewarding them for success
10:10But also helping out the finances with some flexibility for said franchise as well
10:17We have seen a lot of those deals happen in the last 48 72 hours more over the weekend in free agency
10:23Although it's just the legal tampering window starting on Monday
10:28Basically, that is the start for free agency 4 p.m
10:31Eastern Time this upcoming Wednesday league year officially begins those deals trades and signings
10:38Can be made official the commanders yesterday
10:41resigning Bobby Wagner one-year deal for the vet guaranteed eight million dollars on the contract as well a
10:4810-time pro bowler a
10:50An 11-time all-pro player including a second team nod this year
10:55He remains in Washington and of course some of the biggest news this week DK Metcalf
11:00Requesting a trade from Seattle GM John Schneider of the Seahawks talking about it yesterday saying quote
11:07Obviously DK has requested a trade and we are entertaining that we are talking to a ton of teams taking offers
11:14seeing what that looks like that smart posturing around the NFL to be very
11:19Transparent about where this deal stands and trying to up all the assets necessary if a team wants DK Metcalf
11:27Exactly call around teams. Don't even wait for the calls to come to you
11:30All you need is two to three teams to get into a bidding more and you get exactly what you want
11:34You move on wide receiver is happy and you move forward from that and also understand this
11:38sometimes you don't understand like what it means to an organization on the free agent market if you are
11:44Notorious at handling your own players not in the best respects here
11:48That goes a long way where if it comes down to two or three teams like hey
11:51The Bengals are offering a lot of money and your agent has to sit you down go
11:55Understand if you take this Bengals money
11:56That's all you're getting and they will run you ragged and leave you hanging out to dry or hey choose Seattle
12:02Remember what DK went out and said, you know what you've been a great player for us. We'll get compensation back
12:06You'll move on to make more money that goes a long way. That's a healthy organization saying if you don't want to be here
12:12Let's get the right back because they're not gonna fire. Yeah. Oh, you don't want to be here six round pick
12:16Like no, they're gonna expect very good compensation back for DK Metcalf
12:19But at the same time, they're not gonna give away and also other players see organizations that take care of their players
12:26For sure and Donnie part of the conversation, of course for DK Metcalf is his contract sign an extension back in
12:332022 for now what feels like a discounted rate for any top flight wide receiver at 24 million dollars per year
12:40The going rate in the last few off seasons for a wide receiver 28 to 30 million dollars at bare minimum
12:46Which of course is what Metcalf is hoping to make. He's only 27 years old
12:50He spent all six years of his NFL career in
12:53Seattle so Donnie when you think about where that stands then for the Seahawks if they're gonna allow this trade to be entertained
13:01They also know whatever team is going to trade a first rounder a second and third rounder for DK Metcalf
13:07They are willing to give Metcalf said side
13:10Extension and if that's not 30 million dollars, then they can go to DK and be like listen
13:16This is what this team is willing to pay you all of this stuff makes a ton of sense. It is sound
13:21Negotiation although Seattle is starting a new tenure
13:24I guess not really Mike McDonald's about to enter year number two
13:28But a new look to the offense with DK Metcalf more than likely on the move Tyler Lockett released earlier this week
13:35Jackson Smith and Jigva really that top target now for Geno Smith
13:39Yeah, it's interesting and we'll see how it plays out
13:42But understand this like yes DK Metcalf isn't just asking for a trade because he just wants out of Seattle
13:47Which is part of it here
13:48He wants out of Seattle because the new team he goes to
13:50We'll give him a new deal with the elevated salary market that they have maybe cooler heads prevailing because you know what?
13:55I like the direction of this franchise
13:57They offer me a little bit more money and I'm happy that happens because we're gonna talk about to like a miles Garrett
14:02Situation in Cleveland where who knows when two men get into a room and start talking and say to themselves
14:07All right. You know what? I'm not happy here. You're not happy with us
14:10How can we make it better and after 30 minutes 45 minutes? You know what? Yeah, I really don't want to leave
14:16Can you promise me you're gonna get like some wide receiver talent or some running back talent or how about get me another player at?
14:21Defensive tackle to help me. Give me a little bit more money. We can be happy
14:24You never know what the response is gonna be until you talk it out here
14:28So for Jimmy Haslam the owner of the Cleveland Browns on hey miles Garrett wants to trade want to meet with you
14:33Yeah, I'm good with that
14:33Oh that always gets off to a good start and you want to spurn your most important player in your franchise
14:38Who already has a ton of money in the bank who goes I'll make it hurt for you guys
14:42Let's see you in September when we're getting our heads busted out here and I'm sitting at home how the fans feel about your organization
14:50Nobody wants that
14:51And that's the report out of Cleveland early this Friday morning at miles Garrett is prepared to sit out games if necessary
14:58He wants to continue his Hall of Fame career somewhere else where he can actually
15:03Compete for a Super Bowl and the Browns are very far from doing that
15:06But Jimmy Haslam is so mad at that idea reportedly
15:10He won't even sit or speak with miles Garrett. So you have one side
15:16Franchise ownership front office aligned to the fact we're not even entertaining a miles Garrett trade miles Garrett saying I'm not playing for you
15:24I'm not looking at a contract you present me even if it's a ton of money
15:28I'm not going to play for you this upcoming season. I'll sit out games
15:32Yeah, that doesn't seem to be a very healthy environment real life
15:36What even a real life like the wife comes to me and say hey, you know what we're getting a divorce like, you know
15:41We're not even talking about this. You know, what's gonna happen?
15:43We're gonna get a divorce and not by my choice at this point
15:46But you know what if the wife goes she wants a divorce and we meet up
15:49Hey, maybe we can whine and die and say look it's gonna get better
15:52I'll make sure I don't work at the sports grid network anymore. Whatever you need honey to make it work
15:57See that maybe it's you know, what could actually I don't know if it's the issue because again, I'm not sure
16:01She knows I even have a job and I sort of foiled when I brought her to the office party
16:05So it was like oh you actually do have a job or maybe I paid everybody to be there
16:09She still doesn't know who knows and your wife by the way a lovely lovely individual despite all this talk on the show
16:16But of course she and the kiddo don't watch so we can say whatever we feel like but Donnie is correct, right?
16:22If the Cleveland Browns were doing this correctly
16:24They would bump up the value for miles Garrett who is going to get a first-round pick in return and try to do this ahead
16:30Of the NFL draft six weeks time that would be the move because they already have the second overall pick
16:37Let's make it a franchise changing draft for Andrew Barry and that Browns front office
16:43Feels like that might not be the case speaking of the draft the arrest the pick before Cleveland number one overall
16:49Cam Ward becoming the strongest favorite we have seen in this market really all
16:55Off-season both at the end of the college football campaign and toward the tail end of the NFL year as well
17:01Minus 320 for war to be that first overall pick by the way
17:05Hear me out on this right like we always advocate doing what's best for the franchise
17:09Which would be the sports grid network and how much we get paid and all that good stuff here
17:12We're always worried about the paychecks, right?
17:14If we all put all our paychecks on minus 320 cam Ward, we'd be better off for it
17:18He's going number one then let's put the company money up for one month of total salary on cam Ward
17:24What do you say? What do you say?