00:00All the stuff about how they're just posturing to keep him with value,
00:05I agree with you on that, Joe, when they say that maturity thing over and over again.
00:11It's not the on the field, it's the off the field.
00:13No, it's the on the field.
00:15Right, they're trying to continue to push the message that that's not why he got benched last year.
00:21And maybe that is not why they finally decided, okay, we're taking him off.
00:26But if he had been producing at a rate of, if he was having an 1,100-yard season last
00:36year
00:36and he was showing up late to meetings and they were furious with him because he wasn't taking it seriously,
00:41maybe they bench him for a game.
00:42Maybe they bench him for a quarter again.
00:44Or did they do something like that?
00:46Maybe they fine him.
00:47But they're not taking him off the field for half the season, which is what they did.
00:52Even in the games he was active, he didn't really play.
00:56It's way more than just the maturity factor.
00:58I think there are a couple of different possibilities with him next year.
01:04I think one of them is they're talking right now like this just to keep as much trade value as
01:09they can for him
01:10after what Pagoula said at the press conference because they do want to trade him
01:13and they're just trying to win back some leverage and convince teams that they don't have to do it.
01:18And that's how you get your leverage back and you get a day three pick.
01:21That could be what's happening.
01:22It could be that they actually believe that he's a part of it and that he's back next year.
01:27And then that splinters off into, okay, well, if he's on the team, is he on the field playing a
01:34role for you
01:35some of the time, a lot of the time, none of the time?
01:39Is he suddenly going to be asked to be this special teams guy for you?
01:43Because typically if you're on the bottom of the roster at that position, you are asked to do things like
01:51that.
01:52And is that in his future?
01:55Would they even bother asking him for that if they don't think he's a trustworthy and responsible player?
02:01Is he going to move into the slot?
02:03Like to me, you have these like four or five different possibilities.
02:07If he's on the roster, one of them would just be he's inactive all the time and he's just a
02:11backup.
02:12And the other is all of this is just talk and they're trying to get a fifth round pick for
02:16him.
02:18Hopefully it's all talk.
02:19What's the most likely of those?
02:20That he's on the team and he's a backup that's inactive?
02:25Or that he's a guy that plays a lot?
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