00:00So that was Eric DeCasso on the Inner Circle podcast hosted by Todd France who's an agent
00:04and so he was kind of digging at him a little bit there but I love to try to interpret
00:10I play
00:10this game every year because I think Eric loves this time of year for two reasons he came up as
00:15a scout so he loves watching film he loves trying to find diamonds in the rough I also think he
00:21loves misinformation season like I think he loves the Liars lunch I I think he loves the game of it
00:26all so when he comes straight up and says we don't get involved with free agents I'm like
00:30well maybe this is the year they get involved with free agents and you know we talked a little bit
00:35yesterday ESPN put out their top 100 free agents well Trey Hendrickson would be assuming he's healthy
00:41back-to-back 17 and a half sack seasons with the Bengals probably love to stick it to Cincinnati
00:45playing them twice uh you've got Jalen Phillips is is the number three free agent had a nice year
00:51last year between Miami and Philly alas if you were to sign one of these guys to a big contract
00:58that goes into your comp pick formula a formula that they're probably going to already pocket
01:04a third round pick because Tyler Linderbaum is going to sign a massive contract likely somewhere else
01:10and that's where things could get complicated the Ravens are the king of the comp pick formula they
01:17just they just aren't they weren't even in existence the first two years and on the most
01:21comp picks exactly the compensatory pick uh that started in 1994 the Ravens have 60 compensatory picks
01:32which is the most in the NFL like Kent said they didn't even exist the first two years so they
01:37were
01:37playing from behind and they still have the most in the NFL last year they were one of three teams
01:43to
01:43get the max of four comp picks and they're scheduled to get the max of four comp picks two fives
01:50and
01:50two sevens correct that's not official yet not not official but Nick Corte over the cap.com he always
01:57does the cancellations and all that and he's he's really really good at what he does and he projects
02:03them with those four comp picks so how each unrestricted free agent is valued each year in
02:13terms of the comp pick depends on the year but last year it was 21 million dollars annually was the
02:21cutoff for a third round comp pick three million dollars annually is what got you qualified for a
02:27seventh round pick Tyler Linderbaum is reportedly searching for a 25 million dollar a year he's gonna
02:33get 20 plus he's gonna get 20 plus and he's gonna be right around that third round compensatory pick
02:41range and how this works is let's just say Linderbaum signs wherever if the Ravens sign an unrestricted
02:52free agent around Linderbaum's value and assuming both players are healthy because there's a lot of
02:57minutiae to compensatory picks they would cancel out that third round pick and something that we've been
03:05talking about a lot in recent weeks is maybe this is the year they take a swing maybe this is
03:12the year
03:13they spend real money when it comes to a pass rusher and you go to spot track you bring up
03:20trey
03:20hendrickson for example he's valued at 25 and a half million dollars dafe always valued at nearly 20
03:27million dollars Khalil Mack 18 million dollars so if Eric DaCosta was to go out and sign one of those
03:33guys it would cancel out Linderbaum and I would be surprised if Eric DaCosta would be so willing
03:41to cancel out a third round comp pick now I don't think that you should necessarily operate in those
03:48type of waters this is how they do though they exactly now remember I'm old enough to remember
03:54was it just Justin Bethel Justin Bethel and Harbs was irate it was a fourth round comp pick if memory
04:01serves they released him to preserve a fourth round comp pick he was that they signed him the
04:05offseason to be a special teams ace and then suddenly cut him to preserve a comp pick because
04:11you have to be on the roster for x amount there's a lot of minutiae that goes into the compensatory
04:17pick
04:17formula but if you're looking at it from the the basic viewpoint it's in terms of annual value of the
04:24contract now it's also fair to mention the Ravens have plenty of other free agents that are going to
04:31sign elsewhere that are going to qualify for a comp pick for example Draymond Jones will get decent
04:38maybe that's a sixth round pick Isaiah likely that might be a fourth round pick uh maybe Charlie
04:44Kohler maybe Charlie Kohler Alohi Gilman should should qualify for a compensatory pick
04:49should it be a low one like a seven should it be a woozy like there's going to be possibilities
04:55so I'm not saying that the Ravens are going to sit out so they can get the max of four
05:01comp picks
05:01again that's not what I'm saying but I do wonder how willing Eric DaCosta would be in this operating
05:10under the assumption that Linderbaum's going to cash out elsewhere if he would take that big swing
05:15because it would cancel out that third round pick where are you on the Linderbaum of it all because
05:20I keep mentally going back and forth and today I'm landing on let him go like there you can find
05:24a
05:25center go you got it I know it's one more piece on Eric's agenda but I'd rather kind of spend
05:31that
05:31money elsewhere I'm with you and Ben and I hit on a lot on Monday I go to jury duty
05:37and you hit on stuff
05:39I thought ever since Eric mentioned the market setting offer that was the line in the sand and
05:47the fact that we're beyond a week from Eric mentioning the market setting offer and he hasn't
05:53signed it I don't think it's likely now Ben brought up the point that hey I think Ronnie signed on
05:59the
05:59Sunday before free agency so maybe that would happen but I'm not envisioning it yeah I think it was it
06:06the Sunday or Saturday and it felt a little different there um because we didn't have Eric
06:12come out and say what he said about Linderbaum it does feel like he kind of said that's our offer
06:17that's where we're sticking and we we see the rumors of how difficult it is to deal with the agency
06:22and
06:23he you don't hear back from him much and all those things and if any of that is true as
06:27much as we hear
06:28the title Linderbaum wants to be a Raven and wants to be in Baltimore the difference of four million
06:32dollars could change a lot because here's the other thing comparing those two situations and I'll look
06:37for the exact quote during the break but I remember Eric saying something along the lines of he felt
06:44confident in in the Ronnie Stanley situation where what Eric was saying about Linderbaum it didn't exude
06:52confidence it was more like hey man we're doing everything we can it's funny at first I thought I read
06:59it as confidence and I was like well you know we made him this great offer but he doesn't seem
07:03interested kind of thing yeah and and the Costa just doesn't talk that way no that's why it was
07:11almost like him putting it out there saying hey man like we offered him more money than Creed Humphrey
07:17we're willing to go to x but we're not going beyond and this the Stanley part of it he talked
07:23about the
07:23relationship with the agent and yeah he was like kind of saying that they had a good relationship it's
07:27been a lot here it was well Linderbaum was the best center in the NFL we made him a and
07:33a record
07:33setting deal we basically hope to get it done yeah uh market setting was technically the term he used
07:39yeah yeah uh here's the direct quote from the Costa last year at the scouting combat this is about
07:45Stanley you never want to say 100 but I feel good yeah that we'll have a good we were shocked
07:51debate a
07:52good process we're going to meet with Kim who's his agent in Indy this week and I'm optimistic that
07:59we'll be able to get a deal done that that's a lot different tone than what he said about Linderbaum
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