00:00The Texans and the rest of the AFC South may have dodged a bullet.
00:05Trey Hendrickson, who if you're just getting in your car,
00:09you're just waking up, you're just listening,
00:11the ripple effect of the Max Crosby trade getting squashed,
00:16the Ravens backing out of the Max Crosby trade on a failed physical.
00:20They failed him on his physical.
00:21So the two first-round picks, the Ravens get those back.
00:25Max Crosby goes back to the Raiders, and the Raiders are back to square one
00:28in trying to move Max Crosby.
00:30But the second move that the Ravens made from that was signing Trey Hendrickson,
00:36the all-pro defensive end, former SAC leader a couple of years ago
00:41for the formerly the Cincinnati Bengals.
00:43He goes to Baltimore on a four-year, $112 million deal.
00:46The deal can get as high as $120 million.
00:48So he's getting a pretty penny to go be an edge rusher for the Ravens.
00:53Texter says, according to Ian Rapoport,
00:56that the Texans may have dodged a bullet.
00:59Hendrickson was about to sign with Indianapolis before the Crosby deal
01:05got squashed by the Ravens.
01:07Well, good luck facing our onslaught of budget one-year offensive tackle signings.
01:15It worked out for Trey Hendrickson, in my opinion.
01:19He got the hell out.
01:20He's scared.
01:21He's yellow.
01:22He's yellow.
01:23He's yellow.
01:2350% chance that Trent Brown would have been healthy for the game in which he played.
01:27And if he's not, Brent Smith might be.
01:29Or possibly Blake Fisher.
01:32Yeah.
01:32Yeah.
01:33A whole army of right tackles that may or may not be able to play.
01:37So, yeah.
01:37But that is wild, though.
01:40And I saw a list.
01:41I think Schefter may have tweeted out a list of other teams that were in on.
01:45Yeah, here it is.
01:46I'm looking at it.
01:47And Schefter retweeting Jeremy Fowler, the Colts, the Bills, the Bucks, the Commanders,
01:54and the Eagles were all involved in Trey Hendrickson's free agency.
01:59So, there was, I'm obviously, he's a great player.
02:01There's no lack of interest in him.
02:03And obviously, of that list, I'm really glad he didn't go to the Colts, and I'm really glad
02:07he didn't go to the Bills.
02:09He went to the Ravens, which is a little problematic.
02:11You know, you got to, you know, if you're an AFC team, I know the Ravens didn't make
02:15the playoffs last year, but that still strikes me as a team that this season you're going
02:19to have to get through to get to the Super Bowl.
02:21You know, they were injured like crazy last year, including missing Lamar Jackson for
02:27a big chunk of the year.
02:28And they still, if they had beaten the Steelers in the last game of the year, would have made
02:31the postseason.
02:31The whole Jesse Minter being a defensive-minded coach and going to a team that needs to have
02:36a more consistently good defense than they've had.
02:39The Ravens have been so weird on defense for four or five years now, where they're bad in
02:43the first half of the season, then they figure it out.
02:45Last year, they had figured it out, and then it all fell apart again defensively.
02:49I think that it's a big gamble to take in a year where you're also letting go of a boatload
02:57of free agents, and Jesse Minter wanting, I mean, them wanting to spend so aggressively
03:02to bring one key guy in that you need to make your defense go, and it's going to be
03:09Max Crosby, a guy who's on the back half of his career.
03:13That's a dicey way to team build, man.
03:17They might have ended up really saving themselves some hardship down the line by taking a more,
03:24or this ends up being a little bit more of a sober approach to building a team in Jesse
03:29Minter's vision.
03:30Well, would you, yeah, I mean, to me, I think Max Crosby is a better player than Trey Hendrickson.
03:35I think they're both awesome.
03:36I think Max Crosby has a higher ceiling than Trey Hendrickson, so it boils down to, you
03:42know, depending on what you believe as to whether he should have flunked his physical
03:46or not, the bottom line was Crosby had something that was flunkable.
03:49So whatever the motivation was, I think the bottom line for me is, would you rather have
03:53Trey Hendrickson at $28 million a year, call it $30, because if you want him, you want him
03:58to hit those incentives.
04:00So would you rather have Trey Hendrickson at $30 million a year and have your first round
04:04picks, or would you rather give up two first round picks for Max Crosby at $35 million a
04:08year?
04:09It's a no-brainer.
04:10So I don't know if the Ravens saw a way out or if they started to get some intel.
04:15Like if they, that would be, boy, that would be the interesting thing.
04:18If they made the Max Crosby trade, but they were while Crosby, I mean, I guess you're doing
04:25your due diligence.
04:26If they were negotiating with Trey Hendrickson while the Crosby trade was still considered
04:30a done deal.
04:31Yeah.
04:32You know, I think you almost have to, if you're them, right?
04:34Until the physical, until the physical gets taken, you, you need to operate in a way where
04:38Max Crosby might not be on our team.
04:39It's just really, it's just rare for it to happen this way.
04:44We brought up some other instances in one instance, one instance, it was a brain tumor
04:48that was discovered in a player.
04:50Like it's just different.
04:51The, the big thing about it, I guess, from Jesse Minter's perspective is that he wants,
04:58he wants to be able to have defensive linemen that not can just rush the passer, but also
05:02be able to stop the run without having to bring an extra safety up in the box.
05:06They play a whole lot of too high safety there with the charges and everything.
05:09And Hendrickson's not the same type of run defender as Max Crosby.
05:12That's true.
05:12Yeah.
05:13So that's where he probably, that's why Hendrickson wasn't their dream candidate the way that
05:17Max Crosby is.
05:18Yep.
05:19Um, text message on the base power text line.
05:22Uh, will the Colts now go for Crosby?
05:25No, they, the Colt, they made their two first round pick trade.
05:28They traded for sauce Gardner.
05:29They don't have picks.
05:30The Colts have no ammunition to go make a deal like this.
05:33They are pot committed to sauce Gardner as their guy.
05:36And while they still don't currently have a quarterback under contract, that's what they're
05:40into.
05:41Just a transition tag.
05:42He's just, he's just a transition tag floating around the building.
05:46Um, here was Adam Schefter yesterday on the Pat McAfee show.
05:50He talks about Braden Smith, talks some Texan stuff.
05:53It's the thing at the very end here that we're going to need to keep an eye out for starting
05:57this afternoon.
05:58The Houston Texans fortifying their offensive line.
06:00They've been in the market to do that.
06:01That's been a focus for them throughout the off season.
06:04Now they get a deal done taking a player from their division rival, Braden Smith.
06:08The Texans have been busy today.
06:09Short time ago, they also extend their kicker, Kaimi Fairburn, making him the highest paid
06:14kicker in the league.
06:16So Fairburn gets a new deal.
06:18Braden Smith gets a new deal.
06:19The Houston Texans keeping busy today.
06:22And they still have a Will Anderson extension on deck at some point here in the coming weeks.
06:27That deal, I'm sure we'll get done.
06:30He's too good a player, too important to the franchise.
06:32We expect a Will Anderson extension in the weeks to come that make him one of the highest
06:38paid players in the NFL.
06:39That's the last thing right there.
06:40The last thing.
06:41Will Anderson extension watch begins this afternoon at, what is it, 3 o'clock, I think, is when
06:47the league year officially gets underway.
06:49You guys can put pen to paper.
06:51They'd have agreed to all these deals.
06:53That's when the clock begins on an extension for Will Anderson Jr.
06:56When it comes to extensions, I feel like those things don't become genuinely intriguing or
07:02newsworthy until you get to training camp.
07:04And then if it's not done by training camp, is there any kind of stress or any kind of
07:10ill will or anything?
07:10There's just, I wish, there's one instance, I wish Will Anderson were a little bit more of
07:16an abrasive personality.
07:17I might feel like, boy, he might be unhappy or something.
07:19No, it's going to be, it's going to be fine.
07:22And they're just, they're going to give it to him an extension.
07:25It's going to be, at some point, we'll learn about it.
07:27But just for sheer drama, yeah, it would help if Will had any kind of blemishes whatsoever.
07:33Or if the Texans didn't have a history of extending this.
07:35Yeah, there's zero.
07:36I'm thinking purely as a sports radio host.
07:37Yeah, no, there's zero drama with it.
07:39But I think it's going to be newsworthy because I think he's going to become the highest paid
07:42non-quarterback in football.
07:44The question would be, and this is where a lot of people were wondering is, okay,
07:47would the Texans want to try to do this as soon as possible so they don't have to keep
07:51up with other extensions?
07:55It's not looking like the kind of year where that's going to be an issue necessarily.
08:00Yeah.
08:00Like, who are the other guys that are in conversation for extensions for edge rushers?
08:05That's a good question.
08:06Yeah, I don't know.
08:06It's probably something to look up today.
08:07There's no Micah Parsons out there agitating the way, or not Micah, Miles Garrett a couple
08:13years ago at the Super Bowl.
08:14He was agitating for a new deal and everything.
08:16So, I don't think the one motive the Texans would have for doing it as soon as possible
08:22is to be sure that somebody else doesn't set the bar and then you got to meet that bar.
08:28Yeah, I think, boy, what'll be interesting, Green Bay leapfrogged everybody by so much
08:35with that Micah contract last year that I do wonder, you know, are the Texans in the, you
08:40know, do they view Will as a guy who should be leapfrogging Micah Parsons?
08:45Or is it just one of those things like, hey, you know, this is the market and Will is above
08:50a certain line of player.
08:51And when you're above that certain line, you're just the next one to get the highest average
08:55annual value.
08:56So, yeah, I don't know what the rest of the market looks like.
08:59I just know what Nick Casario's habits are in situations like this.
09:02Yeah.
09:02You know, like this feels like an almost an identical situation to Derek Stingley last
09:07year where the guy's coming off an all pro season.
09:10He's considered one of, if not the best at his position.
09:13And here's what the market is.
09:15And the Texans are going to are going to reset that.
09:18And whatever the number is, keep in mind that Will Anderson is still going to have two more
09:21years at far less expensive than whatever the new extension looks like.
09:27You know, like Stingley Stingley hasn't even hit his extension yet.
09:31Like this would be his fifth year coming up here.
09:33So, so there's that sort of the two misconceptions people have, I think sometimes when they, they
09:38wonder or worry about the salary cap is a Will Anderson's the Will Anderson or any extension
09:45that money doesn't hurt you immediately.
09:47Right.
09:47It's often it's a couple of years in the future before it kicks in.
09:50And the other one is just simply that when you see somebody, like if you see somebody
09:54signed for three years, $30 million, that doesn't mean they have a $10 million cap hit
09:58this year.
09:59It ends up being like at Ingram's cap hit this year is I think two or $3 million.
10:03Is it?
10:03It's yeah.
10:04It's not the average of whatever is.
10:06Yeah.
10:06Yeah.
10:07Contract is.
10:07It doesn't hurt you immediately, but it hurts you eventually.
10:11Yeah.
10:11You do have to account for it, but the GMs are looking at things in two and three year windows,
10:15not just this year.
10:16They sure are.
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