00:00I'm not trying to overstate it. I'm being completely sincere as I always try to do.
00:04This wasn't a good trade. This was a great trade. And I'm dumbfounded by some of the
00:10things I've seen from a national perspective. Some of the things I've seen from a local perspective
00:16as well in terms of, well, I don't know. Look, the thing you have to remember about this is
00:24we've talked about it since the end of the season when it became increasingly apparent.
00:28These guys don't fit Bobby Slowick's system. There was a disconnect. We used that word a lot.
00:35These guys being Kenyon Green, Shaq Mason, Titus Howard, Laramie Tunsil.
00:42How'd you put that emphasis on?
00:44Titus Howard, Laramie Tunsil, they don't fit. They don't fit D'Amico Ryan's is what we should
00:49have been saying. They don't fit what D'Amico Ryan wants in players on both sides of the ball.
00:54We know what they've got. This was a great trade. You can be, no matter how good you are,
01:00and Laramie Tunsil's good, obviously very, very good. If it's not a culture fit, it won't work.
01:05It won't fit. Laramie Tunsil did not and won't in every position room. And this idea of him being a
01:13leader that's been thrown out there is garbage. It's hogwash. You can be a great dude. Somebody
01:21put it out there on Twitter. I forget exactly who it was because there were some locals doing
01:25this as well. The players love rocking with Laramie Tunsil. Yes, they do. There's a lot of
01:31guys I love rocking with that I would never consider a leader, that I would never consider
01:35a swarm type player, that I would never consider a guy that I want in that offensive line room
01:41as an example of how to be. So those two things can happen at the same time.
01:47Yeah, they were rocking with him. He's a fun guy. He's a captivating personality. We've had him on
01:53this show multiple times. Laramie Tunsil is a good dude. He's not a leader. He's just not.
02:00To compare those two things, to say those two things, it's just you're not being sincere.
02:05And so this was a great trade for the room. There are a lot of things to consider,
02:10but the main thing you should consider when you go, okay, what now? And we'll get to that later,
02:15is you don't think Nick Casario has a plan already in place, if not in motion,
02:20on how to fix this, how to get the offensive line going? I would sure hope so. And the way
02:24that he has been wheeling and dealing, it does seem like at the very least, he's got contingencies
02:29in place, right? That is something that seems very evident. Again, we were talking in various
02:34ways about the level of belief that you have in this front office to get things done. And oh boy,
02:40they have continued to give you reasons to believe that. And I guess I owe a mea culpa
02:44to the listeners because there's been various ones over the offseason and maybe even football
02:50season that have said, can we trade Laramie Tunsel? And I hadn't been able to see it. I did
02:54not have the vision to be able to see this likely happening, right? He cost a lot of money, but mind
03:00you, and this is where the disconnect between the local response to Laramie Tunsel being traded
03:06kind of also pops in with the ways that national perspectives, guys, even folks that you would
03:12look at and you'd say, hey man, you seem like you were tapped in and that you really watched
03:15tape and everything. They all were so perplexed that Laramie Tunsel, the best pass protector on
03:20the offensive line on an already bad offensive line being traded, you look up and I figured
03:26that you look at it as you're trying to fix it. And yes, there is false start issues, continual
03:32false start issues. Yes, he was not good enough in the run blocking aspect of it. And sometimes
03:37you wondered how committed he was to the idea of run blocking. But it's still, I was like,
03:42that still feels somewhat foundational. It still feels like, are you willing to give up
03:48what you know in the pass blocking for the uncertainty of trying to figure out something
03:52beyond that? And what's apparent is that the standard is the standard. That's a direct quote
03:57from Namiko Ryan. And it's one of those things that you wonder if it's kind of one of those
04:02coach things where, or one of those things that just in general life, right? Somebody in a position
04:06of power has standards. However, it goes to a point, right? Standards up to a certain point.
04:11We can talk about this in an entirely different way. When we say, when we see, you know,
04:15players get in trouble with the law or what have you, or if they're, they're hassles to some degree,
04:21you look up and you go, yeah, but he is so good, right? I look there, there seems to be no,
04:29no cavern here with D'Amico Ryan. The standard is the standard. You need to be swarmy. You need
04:33to be able to like, you know, fully exhibit all the things that is necessary for us to get this
04:38done. Otherwise we will try and find a way to get somebody who will. And they, they moved off of a
04:43really hefty contract, but they also moved off of something that a player that did not seem to like
04:48fit culturally with what. Here's the best way I can put it. And, and, and, and, and this is,
04:53this to me says everything you need to know, set the false start stuff aside. Just forget that it
04:58happened. How could you just, but I'm getting somewhere with this, set the false start stuff
05:03aside, set the run blocking stuff aside. Their stated goal is that their number one priority
05:11is to protect CJ Stroud. And they got rid of their best pass blocker. That's all you need
05:17to know about his fit here. Well, unless you think that the dudes running this are idiots,
05:22because that is something they're not, but I imagine from an outside perspective, that is
05:26something that you cannot assume in the NFL. Sometimes we give everybody the benefit of the
05:29doubt saying that they are competent at their job. These dudes we know are, they're more than
05:33competent at their job. So you can't go to the place that they're just idiots, which I think
05:36that's the national perspective. They were like, what are you idiots doing? Sending away one of the
05:40best offensive linemen on the team. If you think he's a leader, they just got rid of their best
05:46pass blocker. Those two things don't fit. If he was a leader, they would not have gotten rid of
05:52their best pass blocker when their stated goal is, is to number one, more than anything,
05:57protect CJ Stroud. That's why it's a great trade. It's, it, D'Amico Ryan's one thing I've picked up
06:03on him, uh, here in the, in two plus years here is his, you're either this or you're not. And,
06:13and, and there's no like, well, maybe this, maybe that you're either swarm or you're not,
06:19you're either a culture fit or you're not. And Laramie Tunsell was not to, again, you,
06:26you can't comprehend him or think of him as a leader and then get rid of your best pass
06:31blocker. You can't do those two things. Don't jibe. They just don't fit.
06:35Well, and here's the thing, right? Even, even with the cons, you know, the concept of leadership,
06:39right? Which I think is strong, but we don't even have to go there. I think that if you just look
06:43at the cap considerations of this by itself, this deal makes sense, which is why I was kind of
06:47surprised that people had all these issues. What is, what is one of the things that we learned?
06:52Hell, even in pre-agency before we got to like the actual actuality of free agency,
06:56you saw not one, but two leading pass rushers in this league get exponentially higher money.
07:02You talk about the 35 thereabouts million that Max Crosby got on average annual value. And then
07:07after that, the 40 million on average annual value that Max, uh, Max, that Miles Garrett got,
07:12that makes you know that, Hey, my, uh, this will Anderson jr extension that's coming up
07:16here relatively soon. Yeah. Going to be big. Uh, we saw JC horn pick up a four-year a hundred
07:22million dollar deal, which is literally the largest, uh, for a defensive back in NFL history,
07:28Derek Stingley deal going to be massive. And then we saw, uh, Josh Allen get a huge deal where they
07:35ripped up a previous little, the previous deal to give him big money. We all know that CJ Stroud
07:40is going to get big time money. If you are looking at all those, I don't know. I think
07:45that you want to one, look at the fact that how long you want to try and align your window with
07:52all these guys. And that doesn't really work when you're paying 25, $28 million for a left tackle,
07:58who is 31, who's a little bit ahead of this. Like you can make it as simple as the money does not
08:03really seem to make sense. Go ahead and get you some caps, cap relief, and see if you can get
08:07younger at that position, uh, younger and cheaper as you go forward. The only thing that kind of,
08:12then you have a question about is how do you do that in the immediate future? Cause that,
08:16that works for two years and three years in the immediate future. You also want to be a contender.
08:21And that's when you come back to the idea of he didn't do all of the things that were necessary.
08:25He didn't do all the things that were necessary. Uh, the, the, the money clearly is, is angling and,
08:31uh, strategizing for those three big contracts. But again, coming into this season,
08:37this is a team that wants to win. Now look at the moves that they've made elsewhere,
08:41defensively, this defense, and we're going to get into it has gotten a lot better or certainly
08:45has gotten better. Uh, and we're going to talk about that in just a few minutes in terms of
08:49at the safety position, which is another position that I've been planning for,
08:52uh, for a long time. And I'm glad they finally got somebody in there. That's definite swarm.
08:57Uh, and we'll get to that. But when you look at Laramie Tunsil, uh, and you talk about Laramie
09:02Tunsil, it is a loss in terms of the here and now clearly, even no matter the lack of leadership,
09:08lack of swarm or whatever, but you don't think Nick Casario already has the next two,
09:11three moves planned. Of course he does. And it's going to make for some very big, uh,
09:16decisions now and in the draft for sure. I like that you have Nick Casario as Batman,
09:21right? Who just on his tool belt has plans for all the other superheroes in case they get out
09:26of line. Like, you know what I mean? Like Batman tonight, just in case Superman gets out of line.
09:32You were like, you, you, you have it to where Nick Casario is like, should we need to move
09:36off from this left tackle? I got this step in that step. Should we, should Eric Murray get an
09:42exorbitant deal to the Jacksonville Jaguars? We will trade, uh, this, this offensive guard that
09:46we probably can't play. Right. And in the last year of his deal, should we not extend or pick
09:51up that fifth year option for a safety who won a Superbowl this past year, led his team, his
09:57Superbowl winning team in interceptions and is swarmy as hell. If you didn't hear that, uh,
10:02we'll talk more about that here coming up. Kenyon green is on his way to the Eagles,
10:06uh, as CJ Gardner Johnson, uh, previously of the Superbowl champion Eagles will make his way
10:12to Houston. But yeah, man, I, it does seem like dude, even if he does not already have those,
10:17those things in play, it feels like he has, he, he, he's moved nicely, you know, responding to
10:24the, the stimuli responding to what has happened out there. And as of right now, this has been a,
10:29I think all of the logic in the moves have made sense. You just got to stick to landing
10:33because I think the big question that I still got the bodies you got to get. Yeah. The big
10:36question I have is, Oh man, the defense looks like it's going to be tough. We'll talk more
10:40about that. Right. It looks like you're setting yourself up to be able to answer some questions
10:43at wide receiver. I still need to figure out what the offensive line is.
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