00:00thank you so much boy what great timing mark ross nfl network analyst and he is going to be busy
00:06he's part of nfl network's free agency frenzy coverage starts today at 10 a.m eastern providing
00:13eight hours of live coverage i gotta tell you nfl network equals nfl teams getting that information
00:22it's uh great stuff and i will be uh watching all day mark um just happened before we had john
00:29we
00:29knew this was going to happen two is going to get cut and we're going to have mark ross on
00:33we just
00:33knew it was going to happen like that today yeah hey yeah saga of two it continues oh man and
00:40i got
00:40people screaming all we do is talk about two uh well listen man he's your starting quarterback
00:46you just paid him like he was uh mahomes and allen and all the rest of those guys uh were
00:52you surprised
00:53on the timing of it or did you expect it this week yeah it was it definitely was the time
00:58to
00:59do it uh for him and you're not a surprise at all that they cut them and you know just
01:04really
01:04that the rise and fall of two and you have to as you said you got to talk about them
01:08i mean it's
01:09where you drafted them and what you paid them and the good the highs and lows and everything in
01:13between the controversy and and also definitely a lightning rod down there and uh we'll see what
01:19happens next with them well it's funny because it seems like we've had a lot of veteran quarterbacks
01:24gino smith just got released here in the last couple of days skylar murray he's uh he kyler
01:29murray he's out and uh so so there's going to be a whole bunch kirk cousins and now tua um
01:36what will
01:37to his market be in in your eye coming in maybe as a as a backup quarterback or do you
01:43see him getting
01:44a a start with somebody else right away yeah i think more of a backup situation and you know to
01:50his
01:50flaws that i've talked about we've talked about a lot since he's came out the draft and uh you know
01:56there's been further kind of exposed since he's been in the league and with the injuries as well
02:01so i can't really see a team looking and saying what they've seen out of him the last few years
02:06that
02:07he'd be a viable starter that you can win with and yeah for two he might need that break too
02:12just to
02:12kind of get get healthy get revitalized get in a different situation where all the pressure is not on
02:17him and uh just lurking the shadows for a little bit to rebuild himself up you uh you saw him
02:23a lot
02:23and i'm not going to beat this up there is a lot of uh free agencies getting ready to kick
02:27in matter
02:28of fact a lot of it's already started but but i want to ask you like i saw the 2023
02:33and i see all
02:34the games up close doing the games on radio but the guy that last year look just whether he was
02:40running
02:41or trying to run or throw or outside throws that he he had been able to make could not make
02:49uh what
02:50did you see from him last year because he he really had a big drop off physically yeah he i
02:56mean he just
02:56looked like a shot fighter really is is how it looked where as you said at least there were certain
03:01things that the good things he could do he could do them well and then even those things that fell
03:07off
03:08as well the timing was off that the arm looked like it it regressed so yeah it just looked like
03:15a a player who had just been beat up and and lost the confidence lost lost the the energy
03:22whatever little pop he had you know in the arm it just looked like it all went away hey uh
03:27so so
03:28mark gotta ask you a lot of teams as you know we talked about this draft class not very strong
03:32we
03:33talked about we still have four or five teams looking for starting quarterbacks we got a couple of
03:37young quarter it's not sure if they can play going into year three probably looking for veterans to
03:42help that situation so you don't waste seasons with losing games you don't have to um i'm just curious
03:49give give me your ranking as you look at like geno smith and kirk cousins and murray and because
03:56there's a chance all three of those guys get starting jobs yeah and that's the thing that we always go
04:02through this carousel every year of who's going to start and it doesn't really matter you know are they
04:07good enough i mean kirk cousins is not going to win anything for you geno smith is not going to
04:11win anything for you so that'd be a you need the musical chairs and someone has to have their
04:16sitting down but it's actually you know who can dance who can get you to the dance and that's uh
04:20it's not any of those guys the intriguing ones really is kyler you know kyler murray is number one
04:26for me of here's a player that you're not guessing you've seen him play at a high level he was
04:30offensive rookie of the year two-time pro bowler you know throwing for 3 000 yards a bunch of times
04:35and
04:35so you've seen it with kyler it's just whatever else is there why he regressed of course the injuries
04:40but you know building him back up the confidence there with him and and getting in the right
04:45situation where he doesn't have to be the whole entire offense i think you could see a revitalization
04:51malik willis would be number two there where a younger guy who has shown vast improvement from
04:58one situation to another and you're hoping to get another jump out of him but at least he's young and
05:02viable and can provide something for your offense that those older guys can't well i'm glad you said
05:07that because uh we have a green bay general manager and a head coach that know malik willis better than
05:13anybody and i'm just curious people have talked about the price he doesn't have a lot on tape but
05:20when he did play in green bay he was it really good running and throwing and we've seen a lot
05:26of it here
05:26but i'm just curious how much you go out and pay now we're limited on dollars i think our gm
05:33really
05:33likes him a lot i do i think john eric sullivan really likes him but is the money going to
05:39get
05:39crazy on the malik willis front yeah i think it might because when you're looking at him and the
05:45landscape of the other qbs and as i mentioned all right we want a 35 six-year-old dude or
05:52we want
05:52somebody that's 25 26 whatever he is now you know so and and again the teams or we'll see the
05:58how much better he got in green bay and of course as you mentioned i've been saying this from the
06:04start with he'd be the perfect fit there in miami because of the gm and the head coach were there
06:08with
06:08him and not only do you evaluate the free agent market but coaches generally like players that
06:15they're familiar with and that makes them feel better to know there's no guesswork which you're
06:19bringing in malik willis because you've been around him so you know 100 what he's all about
06:24as a leader as a locker room guys in the community all of that stuff and now okay can we
06:29just get him
06:30to play and perform so yeah that comfort level that coaches always like to have with players they've
06:34been around so he would be i think an ideal fit there miami but yeah there'd be other teams looking
06:39around saying well man we might have to outbid them to get them hey uh just uh talk about the
06:45max
06:45crosby deal two number ones i listen i think max crosby's really good i know everybody's looking
06:51for a number one pass rusher a guy that can get pressures but boy if you know what you're doing
06:56in the front office two number one picks a lot to give up for a guy 29 years old or
07:01not yeah i was
07:03i was kind of floored by that when i saw that come about and i actually was talking to people
07:07in
07:07philadelphia here uh about you know giving up their one i was like i don't know about just one
07:12you know you have to have a package and some players so and then here it is baltimore goes
07:16well hold my beer here's two ones like whoa so yeah super risky for me it's you got to win
07:21the
07:21super bowl now there's no well we gave up two ones and we got to the playoffs and lost in
07:26the first
07:26round again for max crosby that's that's not what it's all about is if they go win the super bowl
07:30to
07:31me to be worth it if they don't then it was a bad investment hey uh mark um we we
07:36said we're sitting
07:37back and we talked about the dolphins a lot and john eric sullivan the situation he's in right now
07:43i mean you have no money for free agency you're getting ready to take a 99 million dollar
07:50dead money cap hit um how do you go about like i guess you can still create things if you
07:56like a guy
07:57like malik or something else but man you are really limited and this just sounds like it is going to
08:03be a
08:03lot of draft guys and rookie free agents or veterans on the bare minimum coming into this team
08:10yeah that's really what they knew what they were signing up for there and uh you know really going
08:16to be a quite a rebuild uh once again you know how many years we kind of talked about this
08:22with the
08:22dolphins another rebuild and you know creating that money as you said restructuring contracts and and
08:28cutting guy cutting high salary guys and now we saw with the chiefs with restructuring my home's
08:34contract to get money there and right you know other teams have followed suit to do that where you can
08:38you know it looks like you're you're you're under the cap and now you do move money around and and
08:44create space so that's what really the dolphins will have to do if there's one of these high market
08:48players that they want to have to go after but but overall it could be as you mentioned uh let's
08:55let's
08:55let's build this off of these new players that we brought in here and might be a little little
08:59pain for a while um you see i i still hear this from time to time uh devon a chance
09:05name mentioned
09:05he's still a young young guy he can flat out fly coming off a great year he's gonna want more
09:12money
09:12there's no question about it um what do you do with that one uh and what kind of offer would
09:18there be
09:19for a guy like that yeah well he's one that you want to try to get as early as possible
09:24to
09:25to try to extend him if you feel as if he's part of the solution if you feel like he's
09:29part of the
09:29foundation or if not like all right well what what can we get for him what's the market will someone
09:35give up you know a team that's uh you know in contention like oh we're we're at the body's hand
09:42away from making a super bowl run much like rashid shaheed last year like that sort of dynamic
09:46player like can we get that person and and get us over the top so i would think right now
09:53they're
09:54prioritizing him and what they're going to do and and if not then okay now where do we go where
09:59will
09:59the market be for him moving forward to say he'd be worth letting go yeah so so they have said
10:06they'd
10:06like to keep some of the young talented guys and and jalen waddles in there too and there looks like
10:10there's a shortage of veteran receivers we we saw what buffalo has already done and new england we know
10:17is going to be looking for a guy now that digs is gone um what kind of market you think
10:22there would
10:23be for somebody they would might knock their socks off and make an offer of what for waddle what would
10:28it be yeah i think and his name's been banning around for a while as well and again if we're
10:36talking
10:36about the total reset of you know tyreek's gone and and if if uh two is gone and okay well
10:43is he the
10:43next step is he the next next piece and yeah i don't think it'll be a one you know that'd
10:47be too much
10:48for for him but you know a package of picks that are up there pretty high at least including the
10:53two and
10:54uh would be something that the market would dictate for him and again the injury history talk about
11:01injuries that that's the thing that where teams give pause it's like not just the play and what the
11:06worth is like well here's a guy that's been injured a lot do we really want to invest too much
11:09in him and i think teams will say no that's not worth it a one but you know or two
11:15or three a
11:15package something like that will do it hey hey mark i want to ask you i know you guys getting
11:19ready
11:19for all this coverage where we're calling the 52 hour legal tampering starting today at uh at noon
11:26and taking a look what are you going to be watching for is the quarterbacks going to be the story
11:30again
11:31this year is that always his story because it's always you got to have one yeah the quarterbacks
11:37they drive our drive the programming they drive the discussions they drive that uh so yeah for sure
11:43that's going to be and there's always going to be a surprise what's the surprise going to be that
11:47that's always fun to say oh man i mean maybe it already is the max crosby two first round picks
11:52that doesn't be hard to beat that one moving forward but uh yeah that'll be the fun of it uh
11:57definitely the quarterbacks and then all right what's going to be something that's we're all
12:02going to sit there saying oh my goodness that really happened any anything else you're watching
12:06today any teams some teams are we know got a ton of money and and other teams are tight and
12:13and
12:14trying to figure out a way to get more cap space here in the next 24 hours well the teams
12:19with all the
12:19money and that's the two at the top that's tennessee and and the raiders that they'll be fun just to
12:24see you know this time last year the patriots were the team with the had the number one cap space
12:29and
12:30they were aggressive so they went and got the top of the market guys milt williams and carlton davis
12:34and slain and and they hit they hit all those players and they did a great job which turned it
12:39around
12:40so fast for them and you're looking at tennessee and the raiders are saying okay can we have a similar
12:45type turnaround because uh drake may they had the patriots had drake may and and these two teams you
12:51know they got cam warden tennessee and likely fernando mendoza the raiders so can we have a
12:55similar type turnaround with spending the money and hitting on these free agents that we saw you uh
13:01you're sold before i let you go uh you're sold on mendoza's number one overall pick yeah i think he's
13:07he is going to be certainly uh now i don't i don't see him as an upper echelon type talent
13:12but with the
13:14right infrastructure kind of what way he was at indiana you know if you if they had a ton of
13:17talent
13:18around him and he was a distributor playmaker and so you got to have that and the raiders have a
13:22couple pieces already of course and bowers and gentry and now you spend money and you got a new
13:27head coach and uh we'll see where that goes but yeah you put the right pieces around him you know
13:32he'll be a really good distributor for you mark thank you man i really appreciate it what timing
13:37what timing you have today my man thank you for sure all right all right mark ross nfl network
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