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Washington's free agency haul keeps growing as the team made some big splashes yesterday with Chigoziem Okonkwo and Nick Cross.
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00:00me so here's where we are we're now thursday at noon i don't know that we'll be able to do
00:05it
00:05until then do we have anything at noon stallion because we're opening the phones and that's when
00:09everybody gets to call and say what they want because people have been calling and yelling
00:14that not enough has happened they have now done a lot okay um if you go through all the moves
00:20since monday when free agency opened to now they have addressed a number of the defensive
00:27deficiencies and i want to circle back to the the quote that that i have kept in the front of
00:34my
00:34mind both public conversations and privately was there was a and i reported this right and people
00:41got mad at me i said they're going to be aggressive and they're like what the hell this isn't aggressive
00:44this is aggressive to me dude going all the way back to january 5th this is when they play their
00:51last game they played that four o'clock start against philly that was probably january 4th
00:57january 3rd they played january 4th against the eagles they won that game on the fifth was locker
01:03clean out day and then adam peters and dan quinn spoke at probably about five o'clock that afternoon
01:08if i had to remember correct um adam peters got asked yo you went five and twelve there's not enough
01:16talent how do you fix the roster i feel really good at some spots but there's certainly a few spots
01:22where we can improve and and get young really you know fast exciting explosive talent and that's what
01:29we're doing right now we're working on the draft and got a set of draft meetings coming up next week
01:33which i'm really really excited about got the scouts all showing us their reports and identifying some
01:39guys we have a high pick which is something that you don't really want if it's your own pick but
01:44we're going to take advantage of that and try to find a young explosive playmaker you know wherever
01:48that may be so the the words that stuck with me from there and i've sat in a lot of
01:54press conferences
01:54and the important part is to zero in on the actual truth and kind of ignore the rest of them
02:01like when
02:01you're talking about press conferences maybe seven percent of them matter right but for adam peters to
02:08sit there and say young and explosive over and over again he meant it and now if you look at
02:13the
02:14moves they have made they've done it just look at the athletes they brought in we don't know if
02:20anything is fixed we do not know we will not know until they play six seven games but damn if
02:26they're
02:26not trying to address stuff you know what i mean and and i think that means a lot and i
02:33think
02:36you you got to look at the speed they've added at the edge rush position particularly in chase on and
02:42last night they had a minute a minute who gives you good depth um the speed they've added at
02:48linebacker with chanel the speed they've added on the back end with nick cross the kind of gutty
02:55gritty player you add in robertson as a db slot whatever you want to call him like if you're not
03:03at least pleased with the direction they've taken with a lot of cap space that they've spent a lot of
03:10cap space i just i think you might never be able to be happy um i did a podcast last
03:17night with the
03:18big man and he was like if people are still unhappy it's because they just want to be unhappy that's
03:24what i've been saying i've been saying that forever man they've spent basically in contracts 202 million
03:30dollars in the last two three days now not all that's guaranteed i don't care about the guarantee
03:37i'm just saying what they spent that i don't must have a minute who on here okay the thing of
03:43it is
03:43they're out there trying and as you keep repeating no one knows those loud mouths that call in they
03:52don't know either but they instead of addressing what they are doing they're they're sitting up here
04:00talking about the things that they don't think they're doing because they're doing stuff and the
04:05whole thing about it well they didn't get this person they get that person you i said every
04:10year we sit up here and we make our mind up on what we think based off of a highlight
04:15or somebody
04:16else's opinion but these people have their own and they understand what they're trying to do
04:21and i think when their scouts come together with their coaches and their front office they're going
04:25to decide to go after the people they see fit now if they get them and then they go do
04:30something
04:30it doesn't work you can talk then but one thing you say that i that i was thinking about last
04:36night
04:36you always say every season is it that has its own entity so that is why i don't have time
04:44for
04:44people that are pissed off for what happened 10 years ago i don't have time for people who are pissed
04:49off because the draft last year might have not worked this the stuff they're doing right now has
04:55nothing to do with those things this is some people trying to correct things trying to make things
05:00right and i think at this point you can sit up here and say well i like this player over
05:06this other
05:07player cool but they didn't get the other player okay and we can move forward but people are telling
05:13me i'm pissed off because we hadn't done something in 20 years well we didn't do nothing 15 years ago
05:19i don't care i look in the we're in the windshield not the rearview mirror i for me there's a
05:27number of
05:27factors right and i think they were not aggressive last year in free agency they were aggressive in
05:35the trades that that was a real thing um i think if you want to scream about alec pierce and
05:42tyler
05:42linderbaum i just don't agree with you i i'm cool with missing out on pierce at 29 mil and i
05:48think
05:48paying a center 50 more than what the previous high at the market was was a little crazy and only
05:54the raiders were doing that because they knew they had to do something like that to get the player to
05:58commit to vegas and what is a total rebuild if you were still mad that they at some point maybe
06:06the
06:06spin they should stop doing it like oh we were in on hendrickson oh we were in on dobbs like
06:10nobody has
06:11to know that right like you could just we you don't have to provide that piece of commentary
06:18but it's facts the only it's facts is facts the only thing that was a legitimate not the only
06:25because you can pick faults and try to see needs the legitimate criticism till about i don't know
06:32four o'clock yesterday was that they hadn't added any pass catchers well now they have shiga conkwo
06:38tight end uh university of maryland played his last four seasons with the tennessee titans
06:42is a a legitimate weapon for this team i think um they didn't have to go top of market like
06:52i think
06:53i like chig better at about eight mil per than i do likely at 13 um a conkwo in his
07:01four years
07:01with the titans hasn't missed a ball game i care very much about that um he has three seasons with
07:0950 plus catches and that's with some pretty subpar quarterback play i think looking at david blouse
07:16offense i expect to see a lot of 12 personnel and a decent amount of 13 like i think a
07:22lot of tight
07:23ends will be on the field i think you should be quite excited about chig a conkwo i i think
07:28he's got the size six three 240 he i think for tight ends that are pass catching tight ends
07:36i think perhaps what's most important is a willingness to block you don't have to be the
07:43best blocker but you have to show you're gonna try right because john bates's job is to be out there
07:48and be the best blocker but you have to show a willingness to muck it up to get in the
07:53way to
07:53try to use your physicality and i think chig shows that plenty and i think much like chanel perhaps
08:00much like away again you're trying to catch a player on the upslope of his career he is 26 years
08:08old
08:08won't turn 27 until about week one he is birthdays in september early september like mine um and is that
08:17enough offensively no it's not like just from a straight up roster point of view you're gonna
08:23have to add more running backs which they'll do people are convinced there's no running backs
08:27available they'll they'll find somebody if you liked mcnichols they found mcnichols two years ago
08:32hanging out they're gonna they have to add more receivers and perhaps this brandon iuk thing's gonna
08:37take a while people are confused or surprised by the iuk timeline but why the niners are in no hurry
08:46to cut him you know why because they're screwing him and they're doing it on purpose yeah because
08:54you know what he did to them he screwed them and he did it on purpose you know what the
09:00niners do
09:01by not letting ba go they're stunting whatever free agent market there is for him totally that's the
09:07reality oh yeah we're we're hanging out till draft day trying to get a draft pick maybe maybe you're
09:13looking for a conditional sixth but you're also just not letting the dude get to the market that's
09:18factual and dude frankly depending what exactly happened out there which we may never know i don't
09:25blame him the guy hasn't caught a pass in the nfl since october of 2024 and didn't come to rehab
09:34like
09:35when you're a player and you're going through the type of rehab schedule that iuk was on
09:41he demands to come to the facility aren't that significant if you and the team agree we're going
09:46to do our rehab at another location you just got to check in it's not that impossible true much of
09:52life is not that hard he was unable to do it maybe there's other reasons we'll find out eventually
09:57but if you think the niners are in a hurry to let brandon iu get to where he wants to
10:02go
10:02think again like no they're not letting him go you can call it petty if you want they are being
10:09petty
10:09and then and then they that's their right okay listen to me you you signed a deal you didn't live
10:14up to it they don't have to let you go where you want to go at that moment but for
10:19those that want
10:19to say what hasn't been done just yet it's been three days that's the question and and and i listen
10:30i'm going to go i'll go to the end of the world to say it we don't play tomorrow we
10:35don't play today
10:37so if you are so pissed just like the people that there are people that were complaining about
10:42they hadn't done anything boom they weren't got a tight end what if they get a running back today
10:47are you finally over it are you going to be still pissed there are going to be some people that's
10:52going to be pissed the whole thing about it is let them put it together and then judge them based
10:58off of higher acts you can't say oh they haven't addressed this issue just yet when you're not
11:05playing the game yet so i would think they're not going into the season with just bill at running back
11:11and they damn sure they're going to have just terry uh lane and and mccaffrey at receivers they're
11:18going to have some other people right but give them time to do it like i understand everybody people
11:25they want to i think some some people want to be heard and some people want to just cause an
11:32issue
11:32to act as if they know more than everybody else no you don't listen everybody has a website these
11:38days every damn body and just because you have a website don't mean you're more knowledgeable of
11:43the next because i know a lot of people that put out this stuff you're just putting out what
11:48somebody else put out so it's not you with that that's your soul information you only have it
11:55i think what you and i have you know what's asinine dude and i'm not trying to dunk on people
12:01that
12:01were upset i we are very lucky that this is a passionate fan base you've often talked about
12:07how getting drafted by this team changed your life for the better yeah the fact that people care so much
12:12about this team is is good for my life and my career right like i i don't want to discount
12:17that
12:18but all we tried to say was like our show goes off the air at two o'clock every day
12:23so monday they
12:24were the the marketplace had been open for two hours and they got a massive deal done with tonsil in
12:31that time frame we're like yo just chill thursday at noon let's have a conversation tuesday it was
12:36relatively sleepy until we got off the air basically yeah wednesday is the official open of the league
12:43year and now today it's thursday at 10 18 and let's just run through the actual work that has
12:50been done chigakakwa signs a three-year deal odafa oway signs a four-year deal uh kalavon chason i'm
12:59working on all these names i will say one thing adam peters didn't pick the easiest group of names for
13:02us um kalavon chason signs a one-year deal tim settle who's going to join us later in the program
13:09probably this hour um if you want to hear from tim settle tim settle signs a three-year deal leo
13:15chanel signs a three-year deal amik robertson signs a two-year deal nick cross signs a two-year deal
13:21you extend tonsil you get a lot of your own guys back my point going honestly the last month of
13:29the
13:29season and and certainly in the offseason
13:36you got to get younger i want guys signed coming off of rookie deals i want guys signed coming off
13:42of rookie deals on the upswing of their career i don't think that was asking too much and by and
13:49large that's what they've done and i think
13:54i also you know we're going to get into this world where folks want to okay well now you sign
14:02cross can you not draft caleb downs or now you sign chanel can you not draft sunny styles no you
14:08know
14:08one thing i can say now that you signed all those people it still remains the same as it did
14:15before you
14:15sign them you can't draft every damn one of them okay let's understand if but if you got a group
14:23that
14:23wants love and a group that wants down and a group that wants tate and a group that wants styles
14:29one thing i know for a damn fact they're not gonna get all four of them
14:34okay so if you end up with one of them be happy because that is what you do you you
14:40you you look at
14:41the talent and yes you may like a certain talent but they probably won't get that guy they'll get
14:47somebody else that's talented and realize that they have went there and they looked at it and they have
14:51a game plan and they say this is who we're going to get because that's what we feel is best
14:57for us now
14:58so they'll address some needs they went into this season with a lot of empty spots they're filling some
15:04of them now and i didn't expect it for them to fill all of them in three days and they
15:11haven't
15:11but they still have time to fill them unless the somebody tell me that the season starts tomorrow
15:18what this roster had above all else was holes everywhere they when you got to the end of last
15:25season you saw yo they just don't have enough good players so what they're trying to do in free agency
15:30is add good players all over the field there is not a single move done that prevents them from
15:36drafting any other player period because if you really like nick cross that's terrific he's on a
15:42two-year deal you want caleb downs you draft him at seven you get five years of control true and
15:47you
15:48know what would help the defense putting downs with cross you really like sunny styles sure you just
15:54signed chanel i'll tell you one thing like if people are good players helps people that probably felt
15:58just like i did last year were upset on tackling one thing i know that cross does he hits you
16:04and he
16:04takes you down chanel too one day chanel does he hits you and he takes you down so my ultimate
16:10thing
16:10is they are going out addressing things that were very important last year how many times i mean i was
16:18saying it privately to you far before i was saying it publicly on air i'm done with ball's life tackling
16:23his life
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