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Seth and Sean use what Nick Caserio had to say about CJ Stroud in yesterday's press conference to formulate a percentage chance of him getting a contract extension this offseason.
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00:00Before we get into Nick Casario talking about the team, the offense, C.J. Stroud, turnovers, contract extensions, all those things,
00:08Seth and I are going to try to, you know, try to use our brains here to come up with a percentage chance that C.J. gets a contract extension.
00:15Yeah.
00:15Based on Casario answers from yesterday.
00:17If you're listening to the 45 minutes, give or take, that Casario spoke yesterday, there were some you might think, wow.
00:26Yeah.
00:26They're definitely giving him an extension.
00:27There are others where you think there's no chance in hell.
00:31They might try to trade him tomorrow.
00:32I don't know.
00:33Yeah.
00:33Yeah.
00:33So we're going to go through this.
00:35We're going to give you the exact percentage chance at the end of this exercise.
00:40And to be fair, just the overall tone of the press conference to me was that Nick was being very critical of C.J. in the playoff game,
00:47but very complimentary of him about how he played this season and over the course of his career.
00:53That's what makes it such a conundrum.
00:55Yeah.
00:55He was on both sides of it.
00:56And I thought he, I thought Nick addressed the overall C.J. situation pretty well yesterday,
01:02but we'll go through it and we'll see if you agree with me on that.
01:05Before we do that, you and I were talking during the break, you pulled up, was it PFF?
01:08You pulled up these numbers?
01:10PFF, because they have their turnover worthy play statistic.
01:13Yeah.
01:13And I was, because I thought, man, it could have been eight interceptions in that game against the Patriots.
01:19And so I was curious what they said.
01:22They said that he had six turnover worthy plays.
01:25Sounds low.
01:26So that's that.
01:26Doesn't mean that he had turned the ball over, but it was a bad throw or whatever.
01:30It could have easily been an interception.
01:32I think that it does sound low.
01:34I think part of it is that they might not have accounted for the elements.
01:37Because an errant pass, one that's slight, like kind of off target or bad, but the receiver gets his hands on it.
01:45In that game, that's on C.J. in my book.
01:48You can't expect, you can't be rifling it at Xavier Hutchinson to where he has to leap for it and it goes off his fingertips.
01:55So that, but that was, but then if you look at the season.
01:59So by and large, for most of the season, he would only have zero or one.
02:05Yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:05Pretty good, right?
02:06That's pretty good.
02:08He had of his 23 turnover worthy plays this year, according to PFF.
02:13That's the total for the season, 23.
02:1516 of them came in three games.
02:19The Patriots.
02:20Yep.
02:21The Seahawks.
02:22Yep.
02:23And the Steelers.
02:24So the two playoff games and what I would say might, might have been the one regular season game whose atmosphere mirrored the Steelers and the Patriot games.
02:36Like that Seahawks game on a Monday night, right?
02:39He's proven to be one of the best teams in the league.
02:40Yes.
02:41You know?
02:41Yeah.
02:42Like the Chiefs game felt bigger than it actually was.
02:46Yeah.
02:46There's a lot of emotion packed into that and the history with the Chiefs and everything.
02:50Yes.
02:50But by and large, they're a non-playoff team.
02:52Correct.
02:53But yeah, he's so, I think over half of his turnover worthy plays came in three really big, important games versus good opponents, good defenses.
03:02But 12, 12 of them came in the playoffs over the course of two weeks.
03:07I think you said 10 before it came in the playoffs.
03:10Oh yeah.
03:1010.
03:10Sorry.
03:1110.
03:11Yeah.
03:1110 came in the playoffs.
03:12Yeah.
03:12So nearly half of them came into the two games in the playoffs.
03:15Six against New England, four against Pittsburgh.
03:17Yeah.
03:17Sorry.
03:17I've got it ranked by a total number.
03:19All good.
03:19Top high to low here.
03:20Yeah.
03:21All good.
03:22So, so that's bad.
03:24Like that 23 on the season is a good number.
03:27Like that's, that's well done.
03:29I think I, that sound like for a seven to, well, for CJ, a 14 game season to in 14 games to only have 23 turnover worthy throws feels good.
03:37I don't know.
03:38I don't follow those advanced stats super close to know where that ranks.
03:41I think the, in the Seahawks game, I would ask just the offensive line was really having a rough go of it.
03:49The O-line had a rough go of it in the Patriots game too.
03:51But CJ reacted more extremely to it than he had for most of the season.
03:58He's dealt with bad offensive line play or push up the middle before.
04:01This one, as we've seen since CJ came back from the concussion, he looked really frazzled when it might be a situation we'd have to scramble or something.
04:10And, and he starts forcing throws that he shouldn't be making.
04:13Yep.
04:14All right.
04:14So let's get into these cuts here.
04:16Um, this is Nick Casario, uh, the contract extensions and individuals were a big topic yesterday.
04:24Let's lead in with this one.
04:26Um, Nick Casario saying we build a team here.
04:28It's not about one guy.
04:30Yeah.
04:30I mean, look, in the end, we're trying to do what's best for the team.
04:33Like this program is not about one individual.
04:35So we're not building a team based on one person, one facet of anything.
04:39We're trying to look at the big picture.
04:41Yeah.
04:41It doesn't affect, I mean, how we look at the team.
04:44So what do we need to do to build the best team possible?
04:46Put the best team together and then give ourselves the opportunity to compete on a weekly basis,
04:51which we've certainly done that.
04:53You know, we put ourselves in a good position.
04:55In the end, I'd say our shortcomings come down to execution.
04:58You know, when you go back and look at the game the other day, can't turn the ball over five times.
05:02We control that.
05:02I'd say the three touchdowns that, um, New England scored, we didn't play the coverage or the technique the right way
05:08on calls that we've done countless times.
05:11So, in the end, like we've proven that we could do it, but in games of that magnitude, the margins are as small as any,
05:19and you either make the plays and do the right thing or you don't.
05:22So, in the end, like to end up talking to some players on Monday, they know it.
05:28And when they're articulating it, that's what you want to see and that's what you want to hear,
05:34which tells you you're on the right track.
05:37So, in the end, it's about the team.
05:39Let's build a good team.
05:41And in the end, get the best 53 guys.
05:44And like we've talked about, we talked about it in October, we talked about it before the season,
05:47whoever comes in this building, at some point, they're probably going to have to play.
05:51So, and that's where we try to build as much depth throughout the roster.
05:54Okay, we're good, Ben.
05:55We got what we needed.
05:56That's a long call right there.
05:58So, Seth's going to rip his microphone off of the stand, I think.
06:01That was in response, I believe, to a question about how do you build a team around C.J. Stroud.
06:07Yeah, yep.
06:07And one of the big themes of this press conference was really Nick kept either directly or indirectly
06:13pointing to the turnovers on offense and then the technique errors on defense that allowed those big plays.
06:21I think Kalen Bullock in that first touchdown, Jalen Reed, I think, was supposed to have inside leverage on the Stephon Diggs touchdown.
06:29Like all of these things where there were just these breakdowns on some of these big plays.
06:33But he didn't, boy, he didn't.
06:36He brought up the turnovers.
06:38He brought up the turnovers.
06:41He's talking about building a team, really saying it's not about one guy.
06:45Sure.
06:45Which would be your quarterback.
06:46I mean, this is definitely a cut that has a low percentage chance of the contract.
06:51I don't know.
06:51This one might make me feel more like it's, yeah, that's a, I would say this is a, this one gives me a, for me, 30% chance of them extending it.
07:0030% chance.
07:01And we're just going to average these at the end?
07:03Yeah.
07:03Okay.
07:04We're saying these percent chances, C.J. will get an extension this offseason.
07:08Okay, so you feel like after hearing that cut, that's all we had from Nick yesterday, you feel like there's a, basically a one in three, so 30% chance of him getting it.
07:1630%, and it would be lower, except that I can't tell whether really he's, like, he's actually trying to say the quarterback isn't as important as you're making it out to be, or vice versa.
07:24Okay, so I'm, and I'm going to roll with you on these.
07:27So 30%, pain and Pendergast, 30% chance of that, after hearing that.
07:32All right, next one, what can the organization do to help C.J. Stroud?
07:38Yeah, I think every player, the offseason is about improvement, you know, what are some of the things that you can do better.
07:42C.J. had a really good season.
07:44He's done a lot of great things, done a lot of great things for his team, a lot of great things for this organization.
07:49I mean, anytime that you pass John Elway in terms of, you know, what you've accomplished in a short period of time, I mean, like, talk about, like, Hall of Fame quarterback.
07:57So, C.J. played good football this year.
08:00Honestly, it wasn't our best day as a team, when you go back, really, and look at the game from Sunday.
08:05K.J. turned the ball over, and you look at the divisional round, the teams that turned the ball over, they lost the game.
08:12Buffalo turned the ball over, what, how many times?
08:13Four times.
08:15Brock Purdy, the Niners, turned it over three times.
08:17Caleb threw three interceptions.
08:18So, in the end, like, the most important, I mean, our ball security, I think this is a franchise record for the least amount of turnovers.
08:25So, we've shown that we can take care of the football.
08:28We did a poor job of it in the game the other day, and it ended up costing us.
08:31All right.
08:32So, that's good.
08:32I think we got the gist of that one.
08:33Yeah.
08:33You did a poor job of it in the Steelers game, too.
08:35Yeah.
08:36And you got lucky on some of those fumbles.
08:37But he did a really poor job of it over the course of the entire playoffs.
08:41Boy, that is a polarizing cut.
08:46Because he compared him to John Elway at one point.
08:48I said that he's done something.
08:50What's that?
08:50Was that?
08:51I refused to look it up.
08:52I refused to look up which stat he was talking about where he surpassed John Elway.
08:56There's one that I saw that I think it was something along the lines of most wins by a quarterback drafted in the top two.
09:04Okay.
09:04Something like that.
09:05Yeah.
09:05It was great.
09:06If I'm not mistaken.
09:08It's John Elway, Seth.
09:09I know.
09:10And he just, out of nowhere, he brings up John Elway.
09:12John Elway, man.
09:13All right.
09:13And he said he's done some great things here.
09:16Yes.
09:16And he's also pointed out the fact that he did a good job during the rest.
09:19But the team set a record, a team record for fewest turnovers.
09:23Fewest turnovers.
09:24That's with an extra game, too, Sean.
09:26Here's where, Seth, when we look at this through the prism, and for those just getting in their car,
09:30Seth and I are playing Nick Casario cuts from yesterday and trying to come up with a percentage chance that CJ gets his contract extension.
09:36I think any cut that has elements to it where David Mulligetta can go, hey, but you said.
09:43But you said.
09:44Yeah.
09:44That's got to be a high percentage.
09:45That's got to be something that not even John Elway has done.
09:47That's got to be, like, certainly a greater than a coin flip chance that he gets a contract extension.
09:52Yeah.
09:52John Elway didn't win his first championship until he was well past his plan.
09:56John Elway was trash his first couple years.
09:59Well, no, but he was also.
10:00Yeah, that's another part of it, too.
10:01Let's not forget that it used to be kind of normal for even first-round quarterbacks to not start right away.
10:09They were awful.
10:10Eli Manning was awful his first three years.
10:13Yeah, man.
10:13So the time frame or the schedule has changed a little bit.
10:18Yeah.
10:19Boy, but he also, again, brought up the turnovers.
10:22This one, I would say.
10:25Still say.
10:26Okay.
10:26Okay.
10:27Should I go higher than that?
10:28I think all the stuff at the beginning is really strong.
10:31And not even.
10:32But then he criticized CJ, too.
10:34Yeah.
10:35Yeah, yeah, yeah.
10:35Okay, I'm going to say 50%.
10:37I think it's a coin.
10:38I think you're spot on.
10:40I think you got that good half and the bad half of that cut.
10:42Okay.
10:4350%.
10:44All right, so we've got 50%.
10:45That was an inadvertent thing, by the way.
10:47All right, next one.
10:48Next one.
10:49Is an extension with CJ this offseason a goal?
10:53Yeah, I'd say, like, contractually, you know, we haven't really talked publicly about anybody's contract.
10:58I would say every situation with any player is kind of case by case.
11:01So we'll handle business how we handle business.
11:04So, you know, everybody's in kind of some different categories.
11:07So we kind of take it case by case and kind of deal with, you know, one player at a time.
11:10Okay.
11:11Now, the one thing I haven't heard about CJ, I'm curious about this.
11:16I don't want to read too much into this.
11:17At various points with other players, we've heard them gush about how this guy does everything we want him to do in the building, in the meetings, everything, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
11:27It's the Will Anderson.
11:29Yeah.
11:29Will gets that treatment all the time.
11:31I'm trying to think if Nick himself has ever said, we really want this guy to be in the organization a long time.
11:35I feel like he said that with Nico, but I can't remember for sure.
11:39Yeah.
11:39But he didn't really – he said that's something we'll get into, standard GM response.
11:44Yeah.
11:44But there isn't necessarily been the same gushing about the process and everything about CJ.
11:51I mean, at times this year, D'Amico talked about how certain things needed to be better in the preparation and everything.
11:58I'm going to give it a 20% chance.
11:5920% after that cut right there.
12:01Based on an overall also just absence of gushing about CJ.
12:06Yeah, I like that.
12:07Not the same as like a Jalen Petrie or a Will Anderson or guys like that.
12:11Kamari Lasseter is a big one also that they talk about.
12:14They unprompted talk about those guys.
12:17And gush about it.
12:19Gush about it.
12:19Gush about how they are in the building and everything else.
12:23Culture centers.
12:24We don't hear that same level of gushing about CJ.
12:26We don't.
12:2620%.
12:27So 20%.
12:28All right.
12:28So next one.
12:30Could the team have done more – could the team, the front office, have done more for the offense this year?
12:36I mean, I'm not really sure of the question.
12:38I'd say we had one of the best teams in the league.
12:40So, I mean, we went out there and competed with every team in the league that we played.
12:43So, I mean, I'm not sure what the question is.
12:46I can specify.
12:47You know, the offense, according to their statistics, didn't take a huge jump offensively.
12:53And I'm wondering –
12:55The most important statistic is winning games.
12:57So, that's what we're focused on.
12:58100%.
12:59But you lost in the divisional round again.
13:02You ultimately want to get farther.
13:03Do you feel like you could have done more to get to that point?
13:06Or were there circumstances that you felt were out of control?
13:10We had a good enough team to win any game we played.
13:12In the end, we didn't execute well enough.
13:14You can't turn them all over five times in the divisional playoff round.
13:17I mean, taking care of the football is the single most important stat correlated to winning.
13:23I mean, look it up.
13:24It's the truth.
13:25If you don't turn the ball over, you enhance your chances of winning, it's 85%, 90%.
13:30I mean, so that's the most important stat.
13:35Turnovers, taking care of the football, like look around the league.
13:39So, in the end, we had a good enough team to beat anybody.
13:43We played with every team in the league in front of us.
13:46In the end, if we execute better, we'll still be playing.
13:50I mean, I'm not trying to oversimplify it, but that's the truth.
13:53It's a...
13:543%.
13:54It's...
13:553%.
13:563%.
13:573%.
13:58Did you do enough to win?
13:59Did you do enough to improve this year?
14:02And they got a lot of wins, but they couldn't advance beyond the divisional round.
14:06Their stated goal, take it to new levels, specifically because you...
14:11The thing that gives you an 85% or 90% chance of winning, the 80% of the damage done to it
14:17was done by your quarterback.
14:17And he's lucky that it wasn't more than four turnovers.
14:20He's very lucky it wasn't more than four.
14:22As we outlined at the beginning of this segment, he had six turnover-worthy throws, according
14:25to PFF, in that game.
14:27It's a fascinating answer, Seth, to me, because the beginning of it, when Nick pulls out the
14:33shield with the big W on it for wins, it says, hey, we want a bunch of good questions
14:38about the offense.
14:38Like, Jonathan Alexander asked a question.
14:40The offense didn't get better, noticeably, this year.
14:42They did some things better, but it's still not a good offense.
14:45And the beginning of the answer was almost like Nick protecting the offense.
14:49Yeah.
14:49And then he's like, you can't turn the ball over five times.
14:54It's a fascinating answer.
14:55It really is.
14:563%.
14:563%.
14:57And I'm not in the mood for anybody that wants to bring up these other stat lines of
15:00other quarterbacks who threw interceptions this weekend.
15:03Go watch those games.
15:04They all did...
15:04Tell me.
15:05Tell me.
15:06Yeah.
15:06They all did things...
15:07Sorry, Seth.
15:08They all did things to counterbalance those turnovers.
15:13No, and they also...
15:13They weren't as egregiously bad.
15:15No.
15:15The turnovers weren't as bad.
15:17Drake May's turnovers weren't as bad as CJ's.
15:19Yep, yep.
15:20We got a couple more here.
15:21Three more.
15:22How important...
15:23This is the very next question in that press conference.
15:28How important is next year for CJ Stroud?
15:32I mean, every year you kind of start from scratch.
15:33So, I mean, everybody is focused on individual improvement.
15:37So, CJ's played a lot of good football, won a lot of games,
15:40done a lot of great things for this organization.
15:41And I think all of us are excited about the opportunity in front of us
15:44for the 26th season.
15:46It's a year-to-year league.
15:47I mean, that's where we're focused.
15:48So, we're focused on a 2026 season, trying to put the best team together.
15:52And hopefully we put ourselves in a position that we can go out there
15:55and play pretty good football and, you know, win a bunch of games.
15:57So, that's what the focus...
15:58That's where our focus is.
16:00This is a question I have.
16:01When it's a year-by-year league, let's say you don't have a quarterback this year.
16:05Okay.
16:05And you've got multiple different scenarios.
16:07Let's say a few of the...
16:09Maybe there's some trade options.
16:10Maybe there's something going up in Buffalo and Josh Allen is actually available
16:14for trade or something.
16:15Or Lamar Jackson, for instance, who may or may not have been available for trade
16:19in the past.
16:20Right.
16:21Like, where's CJ on the power rankings of guys that you would want to trade for
16:26in this year-by-year league?
16:28That, okay, this is a guy...
16:29If you're saying, we need somebody who can come in here and help us get over that hump
16:34and push into the next round of the playoffs, CJ, right now, might be at the bottom of the list
16:42in terms of how's this guy going to show up and how is he going to make it a different team
16:46in the playoffs?
16:46He's below guys on the list who haven't been to the divisional round of the playoffs right now.
16:52Right.
16:52Because he's been there and failed three times.
16:55And the last time he failed, the last time the team lost, because Nick's making this about
16:59the team as much as it is individuals, CJ was the biggest reason you lost that game.
17:05Two percent.
17:07Yeah.
17:07Year-by-year league.
17:08He's asked about CJ getting an ascension.
17:10He said it's a year-by-year league.
17:12Or how important is next year for CJ was the question.
17:15And it's a year-by-year league.
17:17They didn't...
17:18You know, he's been cited multiple times in this press conference as basically the reason
17:22they lost that game.
17:23And if what your goal is, is to be a better football team next year, one that can win the
17:27divisional round, CJ just hasn't shown it.
17:30Didn't...
17:31I mean, he egregiously didn't show it here.
17:32Yeah.
17:33And then, what does Nick say?
17:34Wins are the most important thing.
17:36Right.
17:37He doesn't care about the offensive stats or anything.
17:39Wins are the most important thing.
17:400-3 in the divisional round.
17:41Well, if we're going to go there, if we're going to go caveman on it, well, that quarterback,
17:45if you want to be simple about it...
17:46Yep.
17:46...which I'm not.
17:47I don't like thinking about it this way, because there's multiple elements that go into
17:51it.
17:51But...
17:51But if wins are the only thing that matters in your stats, then that quarterback that you're talking
17:56about is the guy who hasn't gotten them past the divisional round.
17:59He, to the extreme, negatively impacted your chances to win on this past Sunday, for sure.
18:05All right.
18:05Two more.
18:06If you're just getting in your car, this is important science going on on this show right
18:10now, this very minute.
18:11You turned on the radio.
18:13You walked into the right room.
18:14If you're trying to...
18:15If you're listening to two people coming up with a percentage chance of CJ Stroud getting
18:20a contract extension.
18:21It is scientific to the same level and degree of witch-dunking.
18:26Yes.
18:26Yes.
18:27Science.
18:28Incredible science.
18:29Yes.
18:30Witch-dunking.
18:32Okay.
18:32This one is about CJ and the AFC South.
18:36Yeah.
18:36And he said this.
18:37I mean, it was hard.
18:39You know?
18:39And I think any time that you deal with difficult situations, adversity, it's just...
18:44In the end, you're looking on to it.
18:47And, you know, our job as an organization is to support our players and give them that
18:51resources that they need and feel like they have a good environment to come to work.
18:55Look, I'd say players that come in this building love being here.
18:58They know what we're about.
18:59They know what Tamiko's about.
18:59They know what I'm about.
19:00So, I mean, in the end, we're just trying to win football games with the right people
19:04and, you know, understand this league's hard.
19:07I mean, it's really hard.
19:08Okay.
19:09I'm not getting anything CJ out of this cut right here.
19:11Yeah.
19:11I don't think...
19:11Yeah.
19:11I think we probably just...
19:12I don't even know why CJ's name is in the cut.
19:14I'll punt on this one.
19:16Yeah.
19:16I don't want to...
19:17That's a null set.
19:18I don't want to besmirch our pristine data.
19:19No, because I'm looking at the...
19:22I'm tracking the percentage and it feels like we're onto something.
19:25Yeah.
19:25This is like we're doing a drug trial or something.
19:27We find out that one of the subjects is like, you know, also been doing heroin the whole
19:32time.
19:32Yes.
19:33Yes.
19:34All right.
19:34This one is definitely specifically about CJ.
19:37This is the last cut.
19:38So, Seth, this is the last chance for CJ to get his percentage up on the contract extension.
19:45This is about CJ in particular games this year.
19:49Yeah.
19:49Look, if we want to go game by game, like we don't win a Kansas City game without CJ Stroud.
19:53I mean, so again, like that's one game.
19:56All right.
19:57Look, he'll be the first to tell you he didn't play well on Sunday.
20:00All right.
20:01I'm not going to sit here and tell you you played well either.
20:03Like he knows that.
20:04So, in the end, all right, got to learn from it.
20:07What can we do better?
20:09All right.
20:09And then we're moving forward.
20:10All right.
20:11I mean, see, look at his body of work.
20:13This guy's been a damn good quarterback in this league for three years.
20:16I mean, it's the truth.
20:18So, again, you want to look at everything in totality and then every player will look
20:23at their situation and it's always the case by.
20:26Okay.
20:27Yeah, I don't, do you not win the Kansas City game without CJ?
20:32He had a great fourth quarter, made some great throws and plays in the fourth quarter.
20:36He also completed 48% of his passes.
20:38Yeah.
20:40And, like, I don't know if that kind of goes into the whole, all right, you know, when
20:45you give a quarterback credit for digging yourself out of the situation you were in
20:50already, I think one of the best things CJ probably did in the Kansas City game was
20:53he was, he was careful and conservative and took care of the football and they were in
20:57a position to do the things they had to do in the fourth quarter because they kind of
21:02weathered the storm where they literally couldn't weather a Northeastern storm versus the Patriots.
21:09You're, you're going to give me a number here in a second as to how you feel about that
21:13cut, giving him a contract extension.
21:15What I will point out about that Kansas City game and in general is I think this with this
21:20particular Texans team, I think CJ is executing the assignment in a game like Kansas City.
21:26Like, just don't screw up.
21:27Yeah.
21:28Let the defense eat.
21:29And if he had done that against New England, we would be talking about, we would be doing
21:33what they're doing on TV right now in this studio, talking about Jared Stidham in the
21:37AFC title game.
21:38Right.
21:38Yeah.
21:39That's a, and that's so, and he did the things he was supposed to do in the Kansas City game.
21:43He managed the game properly.
21:44Right, right, right.
21:45We've got a really good defense on the other side of you.
21:47And when, to give CJ a little bit of a break here, when you don't have a good rushing
21:50attack, it's you, there's certain things you can and cannot do.
21:55And you got to realize that you just, there can be zero hero ball in your game when, when
22:00these are the circumstances.
22:01And that all flew out the window in the playoffs.
22:04So it's the Steelers game too.
22:07We had these same concerns after the Steelers game and then he went out and played worse.
22:11So.
22:12Give me a number.
22:12After that one, based on that reply and that reply alone, I would say 65%.
22:17So that's the one that, of the, of the, I'll call it six that we played.
22:21Cause we, we've null set at one of them.
22:23That's the one that gives you the highest percentage in your mind that.
22:28Yeah.
22:28They would actually give them an extension.
22:30CJ gets an extension.
22:31Okay.
22:32So 105 plus 65 is 107, 105 plus 65 is 170 divided by six is 28.
22:45Okay.
22:45You ready, Seth?
22:46Yes.
22:4828% chance.
22:50He gets a contract extension this off season.
22:52It feels about, it feels high.
22:55It was a little high.
22:55It was a little high.
22:56Not super high.
22:57Yeah.
22:58But a little high.
22:58Well, the whole thing is if the NFL weren't in this weird place where it almost becomes
23:04expected that you give a quarterback an extension after the third year, it partly because the
23:09economics of it, partly because the leadership part of it, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
23:14It's just stupid.
23:15It's dumb.
23:16I hate it.
23:16I try like hell not to be a grumpy old man about it, but my God, so many mediocre quarterbacks
23:22have hamstrung their organizations by being given this third, this third year extension
23:27that if it weren't for all of that, I would say it's about a 3% chance, but you're in this
23:33world where teams don't want to, they don't want to kick it down the road another year
23:37and then end up having to pay that much more.
23:39But I, I feel like if ever there was a year to just wait, this would be it.
23:43I agree with you.
23:44We need to understanding you and I aren't making this decision.
23:49The fans aren't making this decision.
23:51They're not doing a pender poll and taking a look and saying, well, if 65% say yes, let's
23:55give them a contract extension.
23:57There may very well be the possibility that D'Amico Ryans and Nick Casario view that New
24:04England game as a bad day at the office.
24:05And if they are looking at the body of work and they do look at this as man, the quarterback
24:10market, it's been stuck at 60 million for a couple of years now with Dak at the ceiling.
24:15It probably is ready to break through that ceiling.
24:18Now I'm not saying give him 60 million, but I could see a scenario where he gets say a three
24:24year extension.
24:25That's for way more than fans would give him right now on the heels of that game on Sunday
24:29and the previous game on Monday.
24:30I guess if it's one of those things that are, if it's, if it's a modified contract, then
24:37I guess everybody can kind of claim that they, they were correct, whether they said he would
24:41or wouldn't get a concussion or get an extension.
24:43Yeah.
24:43Because that's my other big question I have too is, all right, let's say they don't give
24:48him the extension, but he gets another concussion next year.
24:50Right.
24:52Right.
24:52What do you do then?
24:53Yeah.
24:53I mean, that's, that's a lot of concussions in modern times for an NFL quarterback.
24:57It is.
24:57I know back in the day, guys played with multiple concussions and everything.
25:00You can't get away with it anymore.
25:01No, like that's just not going to happen.
25:03And then this is a quarterback who's shown to be frazzled after he's gotten his second
25:08concussion.
25:08I don't know what happens after a third one.
25:10At the very least, if they give him an extension, it can't have whatever the clause was into a
25:15tongue of I low is where he could have retired and all that money was guaranteed.
25:19Yeah.
25:19There's got to be a concussion clause in that.
25:21But if you retire, an insurance policy.
25:24Yeah.
25:24Yeah.
25:26That's what you guys.
25:27Yeah.
25:27Yeah.
25:27Well, they, you need to do that because it, and actually if you have to,
25:30end up having to use that insurance policy, you get salary cap.
25:32You can call it.
25:33Yeah.
25:33You get the salary cap space.
25:34But yeah.
25:35So that's, I would imagine that's a given, you know, even I would do that with CJ, even
25:40if there, if there weren't a third concussion, you know, just, I would do that regardless.
25:44Yeah.
25:45Yeah.
25:45Mm-hmm.
25:45Yeah.
25:50Yeah.
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